Posted on Mar 9, 2022
Please stop pretending 'green' energy is an answer to Russian aggression
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I am surprised that more people aren't aware of a three-step solution to...well...a lot!
Step one: Maximize US Oil production; eliminate any and all US dependance on foreign energy. (Time frame: this year through 2025)
Step two: Develop Thorium Molten Salt Reactors to commercially viable production. (Time frame: 2025 through 2028)
Step three: Perfect Fusion energy. (Time frame: 2028 and beyond)
Step one: Maximize US Oil production; eliminate any and all US dependance on foreign energy. (Time frame: this year through 2025)
Step two: Develop Thorium Molten Salt Reactors to commercially viable production. (Time frame: 2025 through 2028)
Step three: Perfect Fusion energy. (Time frame: 2028 and beyond)
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
Sir: Good points. I am uncertain about the time needed to create the specific reactor you mention in Step Two. But there are a number of small reactor technologies that could provide power to cities and neighborhoods with minimal danger of any nuclear accident. For example, small uranium hexafluoride reactors employ known technology. That technology is stable and could safely provide neighborhood power for years at a time. Such reactors also cannot achieve critical mass and cannot create a nuclear explosion. The achievement of nuclear fusion as a power source is a brass ring and I have no idea when that might be achieved.
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Lt Col Timothy Cassidy-Curtis
MAJ Hugh Blanchard There was a “guesstimate” of $50 million over 10 years (this was made by a professional in that area). I am encouraging that this be done within one Presidential Term (I hope you understand why). My expertise is understanding time/cost trade offs. Within one Presidential Term would imply a cost of ~$5 billion. Thorium is much more plentiful than Uranium (2-3X) and MSR’s are safer than your local Interstate.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
Sir: I can understand that the current administration seems very unwilling to authorize any nuclear or hydro-electric power projects in America. And as of this afternoon, the Administration's Press Secretary Psaki, for some unknown reason, argued that it would be better to get oil from overseas dictatorships (Iran, Russia and Venezuela) than to allow American energy companies to provide America with domestic oil to meet our domestic energy needs.
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Lt Col Timothy Cassidy-Curtis
MAJ Hugh Blanchard - Ah, so you got to see how to tell if these folks are lying. You hear them talk.
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This is insanity. Putting up solar panels or wind machines will not stop Putin's aggression. These ideologues are trying to bail President Biden out of another series of very BAD policy choices. Biden should not have turned off American energy production and made us dependent on foreign sources like Iran, Venezuela and Russia. Why is getting oil from those lousy dictatorships preferable to getting oil from the United States?
There isn't enough lithium in the whole world to build enough batteries to switch away entirely from fossil fuels. There isn't enough wind energy available at a scale to replace fossil fuels. So, unless you want to live in the cold, starve and freeze in the dark, you will need fossil fuels until we find cleaner energy sources.
Russia isn't going to stop exporting fossil energy sources, because that's what keeps Russia afloat financially. Putin could care less about global warming or what anyone else thinks about him, so long as they fear him. Russia, China and India are going to keep using fossil fuels, more than wiping out any reduced carbon footprint we might achieve. Meanwhile US companies will languish under Green New Deal Marxism and reduced and more expensive "alternate sources" of energy.
The Green New Deal Marxists don't care about the United States and its citizens. They want us to fail economically and use the resulting chaos to try to overthrow our constitutional republic and set up a socialist dictatorship. Is that what you want?
There isn't enough lithium in the whole world to build enough batteries to switch away entirely from fossil fuels. There isn't enough wind energy available at a scale to replace fossil fuels. So, unless you want to live in the cold, starve and freeze in the dark, you will need fossil fuels until we find cleaner energy sources.
Russia isn't going to stop exporting fossil energy sources, because that's what keeps Russia afloat financially. Putin could care less about global warming or what anyone else thinks about him, so long as they fear him. Russia, China and India are going to keep using fossil fuels, more than wiping out any reduced carbon footprint we might achieve. Meanwhile US companies will languish under Green New Deal Marxism and reduced and more expensive "alternate sources" of energy.
The Green New Deal Marxists don't care about the United States and its citizens. They want us to fail economically and use the resulting chaos to try to overthrow our constitutional republic and set up a socialist dictatorship. Is that what you want?
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