Startling fact of the day

[snousle]

Ten percent of US electricity comes from recycled Russian nukes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program

I had no idea.

Comments

[jstregyr.livejournal.com]

Screw Russian nukes: I'm intrigued by the nearby energy locked up in the Athabasca tar sands.

Let's annex Alberta now (before them uppity Canadians claim it for their own! ;-)

[snousle.livejournal.com]

You realize Canada is already the #1 oil supplier to the US thanks to tar sands? More than all the Middle East combined.