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World Peak Uranium Production
Preface. The World Nuclear Association estimates 90 years are left. Today 67,500 tonnes of uranium are consumed a year world-wide and production in 2020 was 47,731 tonnes (WNA 2021). Sounds a bit peakish, thank goodness for stockpiles and the infinite … Continue reading
Posted in An Index of Best Energyskeptic Posts, Battery - Utility Scale, CAES Compressed Air, Electric Grid & Fast Collapse, Gen IV SMR reactors, Natural Gas Energy Storage, Nuclear Power Energy, Nuclear spent fuel fire, Nuclear War, Nuclear Waste, Peak Uranium, Pumped Hydro Storage (PHS)
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Energy Watch Group. Peak Uranium 2020-2035
Energy Watch Group. March 2013. Fossil and Nuclear Fuels – the Supply Outlook (172 pages) Uranium production peaks for the same reasons as oil, coal, and natural gas: the depletion of easy and cheap to develop mines. EWG’s guess is … Continue reading
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Tariel Mórrígan: Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization.
Morrigan, Tariel. Oct 2010. Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization. The current peak oil Crisis. University of California, Santa Barbara. Peak oil is happening now. The era of cheap and abundant oil is over. • Global … Continue reading
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Tagged collapse, peak coal, peak energy, peak uranium, predictions, Tariel Mórrígan
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