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nah, australia does
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yeah, looks that way, though i'm about 99% sure i read that on ocuk fairly recently. Suprised at how much we get through apparently around 70k tonnes a year of it, its estimated we only have 70 years supply of easily gettable uranium, though some reusing of older uranium thats a lot more difficult can extend that like 20 fold or something. Plus most of the crust underneath oceans has uranium but is massively more expensive to get to or some ****.
Either way, i still say throw out the chavs so the rest of us have enough food
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By that do you mean hydrogen/deuterium as i was unaware you could get uranium from seawater
yeah, looks that way, though i'm about 99% sure i read that on ocuk fairly recently. Suprised at how much we get through apparently around 70k tonnes a year of it, its estimated we only have 70 years supply of easily gettable uranium, though some reusing of older uranium thats a lot more difficult can extend that like 20 fold or something. Plus most of the crust underneath oceans has uranium but is massively more expensive to get to or some.
Either way, i still say throw out the chavs so the rest of us have enough food
We still get a lot of fuel from old American and Russian nuclear weapons, which are decommissioned and the uranium used for power according to some treaty.
we could always just eat them !
Yeah, a treaty that ends in a few years. Globally we currently only produce about two thirds of the uranium we use in power stations, the rest as you say comes from weapons decommission. What fills the gap when here are no more old bombs left is not clear.
A new treaty,
there's a ridiculous amount of weapons.And of course, we're still making new ones...
By that do you mean hydrogen/deuterium as i was unaware you could get uranium from seawater
There's billions of years worth of uranium in seawater.
not a chance . the whole world is badly overpopulated.just look how much the population has grown since 1900 - due to our love of oil.
Oil is running out and the world is in for a nasty correction with its population in the next 100 years.
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Milestones
The following shows estimates of when each billion milestone was or will be met:
Population 1 billion 2 billion 3 billion 4 billion 5 billion 6 billion 7 billion 8 billion 9 billion
Year 1804 1927 1961 1974 1987 1999 2011 2024 2042
Years until next billion 123 34 13 13 12 12 13 18
These numbers show that the world's population has tripled in 72 years, and doubled in 38 years up to the year 1999. Including some more estimates, the world population has been doubled or will double in the following years (with two different starting points). Note how, during the 2nd millennium, each doubling has taken roughly half as long as the previous doubling.
Oil is running out and the world is in for a nasty correction with its population in the next 100 years.
in millions
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Milestones
The following shows estimates of when each billion milestone was or will be met:
Population 1 billion 2 billion 3 billion 4 billion 5 billion 6 billion 7 billion 8 billion 9 billion
Year 1804 1927 1961 1974 1987 1999 2011 2024 2042
Years until next billion 123 34 13 13 12 12 13 18
These numbers show that the world's population has tripled in 72 years, and doubled in 38 years up to the year 1999. Including some more estimates, the world population has been doubled or will double in the following years (with two different starting points). Note how, during the 2nd millennium, each doubling has taken roughly half as long as the previous doubling.
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