I’ve got a new article in the queue at American Thinker discussing the new Manhattan Project to make nuclear gasoline from coal and water. The editor says he’s waiting for a news hook to post it.

I tried to make a guess on how General Groves would approach the project.

If you followed the arguments about the Hirsch Report from SAIC looking at alternate of in-ground hydrocarbons, one could extrapolate that we could keep up with petroleum depletion but we’d have to double or triple our capital investment over conventional oil to do so. At least, that’s my ballpark estimate.

As to worries about uranium shortages, that’s just more anti-nuclear disinformation. Uranium is bought on long term contracts, sometimes 13 to 15 years out. True, the spot market jumped but that’s very thin as the production capacity has been optimized to meet stable demand for years. There is no READY capacity to speak of. Production is ramping up worldwide, including within the US and will easily meet demand for a century or more.

http://djysrv.blogspot.com/2008/09/western-lands-uranium-gopher-for.html

http://www.uic.com.au/