Nuclear Energy, Space and Humanity's Future | Robert Zubrin | The Human Progress Podcast Ep. 30
The Human Progress Podcast
The Importance of Energy in a Free Future
An average piece of granite, ornery rock, you see everywhere which has about two parts per million uranium in it has 10 times as much energy per unit mass as gasoline. You look at a mountain and New Hampshire made of granite's made of energy. And this is what we're talking about liberating if we liberate nuclear power, and then beyond fission there's fusion. Okay, where there's deuterium in water. Every gallon of water fresh salt cleaner polluted has about as much energy is 350 gallons a gas. So, with energy you can do anything with energy," he says.
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