A Nuclear Reactor In Every Hummer

¿Did you know there is a nuclear reactor under the building you're in?
It's called the earth.

We are sitting on top of the worlds largest nuclear reactor. Stop being afraid. Sixty particles from space pierce your body every second. Your smoke detector produces about 1 million particles per second. Your chair is slightly radioactive. When we talk about radiation we are talking about a huge range of numbers that our monkey brains can't understand. Stop being afraid.

Back in the 50s the energy secretary of the United States said we would soon have energy too cheep to meter. It was called a breeder reactor and it had the property of producing more fuel then it consumed. In other words some of the energy that was being made from converting mater into energy was being used to create more fissionable material. The principles are simple enough that a boy scout made a breeder reactor in his parents garage right under their noses.

We are killing people for oil. People are being uprooted, pauperized and killed because we need to secure oil from their country. You probably know someone who died or knew someone who knew someone who died for oil. You yourself are slowly being killed by the effects on this earth of burning oil and coal. We are fucked either way.

So lets do a cost benefit analysis. If the benefits outweigh the risks then it makes sense to do, if not then of course you don't do it. ¿Would the risks involved with creating energy too cheep to meter from nuclear breeder reactors out way the risks? Could nuclear be safer then oil.

If you had limitless energy from breeder reactors you could:

We could manufacture products that are energy intensive for far lower cost. Practically all the cost of aluminum is the energy it takes to refine it from common clay, bauxite. Titanium is the same way. In fact titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the earths crust. Why everything isn't made of titanium is only because titanium is basically a form of energy and energy is expensive when it has to be produced with oil or coal. The same is true for a hole host of chemicals. The soap you are using is not actually soap. Unless you buy natural soap you are using chemical waist to wash yourself. Modern soap is actually detergent that is cheep because it is a waist product. It's not the best soap but it's cheaper because they are basically selling something they were going to through away.

We could manufacture food using chemical processes that would produce food cheaper and of higher purity then can be done by growing food? We could feed a population a thousand times the size of the current population with ease. We could turn the entire planet's surface into one big city. ¿If we wanted to?

We can take chemicals that would be too energy intensive to destroy and destroy them or make them into chemicals that we can use. The chemistry is there, it's just too expensive to do with energy costs as high as they are.

¿Do you know what you do with nuclear waist?
You refine it and make another reactor out of it.

Refining nuclear waist is energy intensive, that is why we don't do it now, but we could. But even if we decide to bury it we would still not be doing such a horrible thing.

You can not live in a cave indefinitely. The cave walls are radioactive enough that it is dangerous to spend too live in caves. You can dig an awfully deep hole if you are willing to put the energy into it. With limitless energy we could dig miles deep for low cost. So far deep that the walls of the cave would be more radioactive then some of the items we consider radioactive waist. Don't forget, the earth is a nuclear reactor. The deeper you go the more radioactive it gets.

Again we are talking about large numbers here. E=mc^2 means that there is a lot of energy in mater. c^2 is 90,000,000,000,000,000 m^2/s^2. Thats a mighty big number to multiply by. It means that if the mater contained in your brain were to be converted into energy it could produce 50,000,000,000 KWH or 50 terawatt hours. Your brain could supply the entire world's energy needs (electric and travel), that's the energy needs of 6.6 billion people, for about three hours. What a way to go.

¿Do you know why the U.S and the U.S.S.R never went to war with each other?
Because with nuclear bombs on both sides it would have been suicide to do so.

The bomb changed warfare forever. A nuclear power can not be conquered militarily. Once a country gets the bomb it's invincible. In an odd way the bomb is a stabilizing device. The generals know that the only way to win a nuclear war is not to start one in the first place. The only countries that are in jeopardy are the ones who don't have the bomb.

Now that the Americans and the Russians have had a chance to mingle it really seams comical the situation we were in. It seams that no one was really as hostel as the other had thought they were. It's a truth about people that they are basically kind. Charles Manson doesn't even think he himself is evil. No one does. That's cause we're not. We just make mistakes every so often and we get forced into doing things at times, but given the chance anyone would be kind to us and we could be kind to anyone.

It's written into the laws of mathematics. We are living a non-zero-sum game. We don't have to play as it there has to be a looser. We can all be winners. The cost of having losers in the game of life is to high. We need to play this game carefully with the intention of not leaving people behind. The benefits of cooperation are too grate to ignore. An investment in kindness will pay off in the long run far more then any short term bargain.

An adult is a person who has left their childhood fears behind and replaced them with wisdom. Being an adult is not something you become just by getting old.

If we love all those who hate
and fear only fear itself
we will fear nothing, hate nobody
and finely love even love itself.

This world is being horribly mismanaged. Mostly what we have to do is trust people to be good if we give them the opportunity to let their natural kindness shine. We know how to make the world into heaven. We must not be afraid to do so.