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

[oscarlikesbugsy.livejournal.com]

500 metric tons - what is the net value of that?

We need to deduct the profits that use from the cost estimates of the "cold war", perhaps, as a salvage cost.

If you had to guess, how much would you say that Reagan's so-called "win" of the cold war and all the rest of it may have cost Americans?

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

Channeling Rush Limbaugh: It's another O'bama idea to make Amerika into a Socialist state.

[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.