katkinkate wrote:Colorado-Valley wrote:If we have oceans full of free energy, then why is Halliburton destroying whole mountain valleys here searching for coalbed methane?
If salt water provides limitless energy, then why the hell am I paying $2.33 a gallon and a hundred billion dollars a year in Iraq so I can get enough gasoline to run my car?
I think your cornucopia dreams are just dreams for the feeble-minded.
Its there, they know its there. They just haven't figured out how to get it our in an affordable way.
Its much sadder than that, the reallity is we don't have the power plants built to use the Uranium in the sea so why 'mine' it? The USA should have done what France did, 77% of their electricity is nuclear and much of the rest is Hydro. There was a lot of Uranium mined for the cold war and a lot of high value ores found before 1990, then when the cold war ended and with the fall in the number of nuclear power plants and the huge increases in nuclear plant efficiencies we ended up with a Uranium glut. Then in 1994 we started buying FSR Uranium from dismanteled nuclear weapons http://www.usec.com/v2001_02/html/megat ... tworks.asp
All these factors add up, there has been little need to mine Uranium for 15 years and the only reason they keep the mines going is they know someday the surpluses will run out and they want a trained workforce ready for that day.