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Uranium-to-coal plant will cost $600B
DEARTH - An energy company today unveiled an ambitious $600 billion plan to "upgrade" yellow cake from uranium harvested near Dearth into coal.
Coal and Uranium Link LLC (Cul) showed off plans for a complex 14-stage conversion process to convert uranium into coal. The patent-pending process converts yellow cake into what the company calls "black cake," or "manufactured coal." The company stated in a press release that the conversion would put more fire behind the coming uranium boom while giving it a guaranteed outlet.
"The whole world burns coal, but especially after Fukushima, not everyone trusts nuclear energy," said Flip Whethers, Cul's president and CEO.
Whethers said it's exciting to finally have the news in the open.
"We've had to fly below the radar even while controversies have been erupting on the surface," he said.
Some have questioned the logic of converting one legitimate source of energy into another.
"It really doesn't make sense," said Tally Statsmore, a statistician and former coal miner from Midwest Underground Upstate Community College of Wyoming (MUUCCOW). "Why would you take one valid form of energy and convert it into another? I can almost guarantee the conversion takes more energy than anyone can get from burning the final product."
Whethers said it's as much a statement as anything.
"It's outrageous the No. 1 source for energy is being fought so much by the anti-coal establishment," he said. "We need more coal, not less. And if they'll fight it coming out of the ground as coal, we decided it was time to harness another of Wyoming's abundant resources: uranium."
But environmentalists have quickly struck back at the idea.
"Why on earth would anyone manufacture coal out of uranium?" said Barry B. Greene, an activist for Green with Envy, a nonprofit in Coalsbad advocating for wind and other renewable energies. "I'd like to see both nuclear and coal energy obliterated. Now these jokers are saying they can have their yellow cake and eat it too?"
DEARTH - An energy company today unveiled an ambitious $600 billion plan to "upgrade" yellow cake from uranium harvested near Dearth into coal.
Coal and Uranium Link LLC (Cul) showed off plans for a complex 14-stage conversion process to convert uranium into coal. The patent-pending process converts yellow cake into what the company calls "black cake," or "manufactured coal." The company stated in a press release that the conversion would put more fire behind the coming uranium boom while giving it a guaranteed outlet.
"The whole world burns coal, but especially after Fukushima, not everyone trusts nuclear energy," said Flip Whethers, Cul's president and CEO.
Whethers said it's exciting to finally have the news in the open.
"We've had to fly below the radar even while controversies have been erupting on the surface," he said.
Some have questioned the logic of converting one legitimate source of energy into another.
"It really doesn't make sense," said Tally Statsmore, a statistician and former coal miner from Midwest Underground Upstate Community College of Wyoming (MUUCCOW). "Why would you take one valid form of energy and convert it into another? I can almost guarantee the conversion takes more energy than anyone can get from burning the final product."
Whethers said it's as much a statement as anything.
"It's outrageous the No. 1 source for energy is being fought so much by the anti-coal establishment," he said. "We need more coal, not less. And if they'll fight it coming out of the ground as coal, we decided it was time to harness another of Wyoming's abundant resources: uranium."
But environmentalists have quickly struck back at the idea.
"Why on earth would anyone manufacture coal out of uranium?" said Barry B. Greene, an activist for Green with Envy, a nonprofit in Coalsbad advocating for wind and other renewable energies. "I'd like to see both nuclear and coal energy obliterated. Now these jokers are saying they can have their yellow cake and eat it too?"
