In 1998, the 14 operating power reactors produced 78,138 bundles of nuclear fuel waste. This
represents approximately 313 m3 of waste based on a volume of 0.004 m3 for a typical CANDU
fuel bundle. The accumulated nuclear fuel waste inventory to the end of 1998 for the power
reactors was 1,347,141 bundles or approximately 5,389 m3 of waste.

Here is a document on the toxicity of nuclear waste over time.
And a Wiki on High Level Radioactive waste.

Not impossible technical challenges but I fear we lack the political wisdom to do it right.

In 1998, the 14 operating power reactors produced 78,138 bundles of nuclear fuel waste. This
represents approximately 313 m3 of waste based on a volume of 0.004 m3 for a typical CANDU
fuel bundle. The accumulated nuclear fuel waste inventory to the end of 1998 for the power
reactors was 1,347,141 bundles or approximately 5,389 m3 of waste.

Here is a document on the toxicity of nuclear waste over time.
And a Wiki on High Level Radioactive waste.
And a <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enCA315CA316&q=candu+nuclear+waste+&btnG=Search&meta=" Googleful of Candu nuclear waste.

Not impossible technical challenges but I fear we lack the political wisdom to do it right.

In 1998, the 14 operating power reactors produced 78,138 bundles of nuclear fuel waste. This
represents approximately 313 m3 of waste based on a volume of 0.004 m3 for a typical CANDU
fuel bundle. The accumulated nuclear fuel waste inventory to the end of 1998 for the power
reactors was 1,347,141 bundles or approximately 5,389 m3 of waste.

Here is a document on the toxicity of nuclear waste over time.
And a Wiki on High Level Radioactive waste.
And a <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enCA315CA316&q=candu+nuclear+waste+&btnG=Search&meta="&gt; Googleful of Candu nuclear waste.

Not impossible technical challenges but I fear we lack the political wisdom to do it right.

Minerals typically follow a distribution curve in which the amount of resource in ores at a given concentration level increases exponentially with decreasing concentration. In the case of lithium, moving from the high grade ores found in places like Bolivia to "ores" whose supply is, for all practical purposes, unlimited is not even very difficult. There is a huge amount of lithium in sea water. In fact, the high grade lithium ores, as I understand it, are nothing but old salt deposits. Possibly there's been some leaching process which has preferentially concentrated the lithium salts over the usual sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium salts in sea water, but it's still very feasible to obtain lithium from sea water. The price wouldn't even be much higher than it is now.

If you were to take the time to find out the best possible solution (see: http://JackHerer.com for more and very detailed information on this) you would quickly see that the solutions to the vast majority of the world's problems has not only existed, but was known for millennia, and has deliberately been removed from possibility of use by making the solution illegal and keeping the public ignorant of the truth.

We need to look at REAL renewable resources that have worked very well in the past, and which can be pressed into service to clean the environment while restoring the global energy supply in a decentralized and non-corporate-controlled manner.

Lack of political will and corporate profiteering be damned…it's time that The People got off their collective lard reservoirs and did something about it themselves!

ALL engines were once made to run with whatever fuel was available, and all farmers grew whatever they needed to run their engines.

We need to return to the roots of the auto industry to give ourselves a change at a future auto industry. I've been saying it for 30 years…maybe now someone will listen?

To be blunt, we no longer need oil as a fuel source (nor did we ever, technically), but first we need to recognize this fact for what it is, and start moving in an intelligent direction.

Note: Henry Ford built a car with hemp-plastic body panels that ran on hemp oil, and now Lotus has done the same, in the Eco-Elise. How long will it be before the rest of the industry catches up to Henry Ford's century-old idea?

ALL engines were once made to run with whatever fuel was available, and all farmers grew whatever they needed to run their engines.

We need to return to the roots of the auto industry to give ourselves a change at a future auto industry. I've been saying it for 30 years…maybe now someone will listen?

To be blunt, we no longer need oil as a fuel source, but first we need to recognize this fact for what it is, and start moving in an intelligent direction.

Note: Henry Ford built a car with hemp-plastic body panels that ran on hemp oil, and now Lotus has done the same, in the Eco-Elise. How long will it be before the rest of the industry catches up to Henry Ford's century-old idea?

ALL engines were once made to run with whatever fuel was available, and all farmers grew whatever they needed to run their engines.

We need to return to the roots of the auto industry to give ourselves a change at a future auto industry. I've been saying it for 30 years…maybe now someone will listen?

Kind of like how in BC and Ontario electricity is called Hydro even though Ontario has nuclear power and one of the worst coal plants in NA. Calling electricity Hydro doesn't respect where it came from.

If a news reader one more time calls electricity 'a fuel'…

Yes.

All nonrenewable resources follow the same bell shaped discovery, extraction, consumption and depletion curve. Its called Hubberts Peak.

As oil and other nonrenewable resources decline, global economies and populations must too. We've just barely entered a period of contraction that will eventually see the global population decline to somewhere around a billion people. No idea what that means economically but I doubt it is what we would currently call good.