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Originally Posted by SebC
Yes, the energy requirements are going down (trust me, I've heard about it), but there's a limiti to how low they can go. At the very least, W=mgh.  Which is not to say we won't always be making improvements, as progress is likely to be asymptotic.
You could put the plant far away from the oil sands, and even with the transmission losses it would still be way better from an environmental and sustainability perspective than burning natural gas to produce oil! |
We may find that the supply of gas in the future is so abundant that buring it to produce oil doesn't move folks to put it in italics. It's looking out forward quite a bit but there are potential reserves of nat gas that if recovered would make is more than abundant and dirt cheap (a ways from now I admit).
Just curious, where would you put the nuke?