Alternatives to Uranium Mining

...the world's largest untapped energy source

As we debate, and study, and study a study of uranium mining in Virginia, we constantly hear from mining proponents that we must have nuclear energy to free America from its oil dependence on other nations for our energy needs. The earlier rise in the market price of uranium most probably was the impetus for the revival of the attempt to mine the Coles Hill property here.

Now, however, the price has dropped susbstantially and no end seems in sight. So, if we accept the premise that oil alternatives are needed, and, if we believe that uranium mining and it's most dangerous companion, milling of uranium, should not be done here, what are we left with?

Gregg Vickrey (SCC Board member) and I propose that this is an issue that we need to discuss in this forum, and more importantly, to educate the public and our public officials on the merits, costs, and risks of uranium verus the other energy alternatives available to America today.

Below, you will find an article by Jeff Siegel written for EnergyandCapital.com and published on 04/11/08. In it, Jeff proposes use of a source that may have escaped the imagination of most of us, yet potentially provides for an inexhaustible and relatively inexpensive source of energy for America for the future. After reading the article, please feel free to comment with your opinion and offer other sources of energy as a proposal for America to consider.

Marine Energy

( From http://www.free-slideshow.com/ )

Is This Matt Simmons' Favorite Renewable Energy Play?
2008-04-11 By Jeff Siegel

It may not be as shiny as solar, or exciting as wind, but marine energy is what many analysts are now calling, "The Sleeping Giant of Renewables."

And it's easy to see why.

Marine energy is the world's largest untapped energy source, and it maintains a significant advantage over both solar and wind--it's constant.

While solar and wind certainly offer up some pretty impressive investment opportunities (Just ask those who are up 59.4% on the Alternative Energy Speculator's latest solar play), both wind and solar power systems only provide intermittent power generation, as sunlight and wind are not available 24/7.

Marine energy, however, is constant with the motion of the waves and tides. That is 24/7--and there's enough of it to...Marine Energy: Power the Entire Globe

Just ask the experts...

The World Energy Council has estimated that marine energy could supply twice as much electricity as the entire world now consumes.

The Electric Power Research Institute has estimated wave energy along the U.S. coastlines at 2,100 TWh per year, or roughly half the country's total electricity consumption.

(To read the rest of this article, please click on the link below:)

http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/marine-energy-investing/665/