Another poster above you mentioned that 80% of extracted Boron is B-11 so ~1,000 years worth is more accurate if all the Boron in the Turkey mines were used for energy generation only...nevertheless, your post shows exactly why this technology is pretty enticing. B-11 is much, much easier to obtain than U-235 and, if the technology doesn't go the way of vapor, has the potential to change everything. Looking at this article, it appears that your estimate may be a bit off, though, regarding Turkey's Boron reserves:

Going a step further, it looks like Turkey's deposits account for at least 2.88 billion tons of the total 4 billion tons in reserves around the world...definitely enough to keep us running for a while. Considering that we're already using 4 million tons a year for other industry and accounting for future growth (let's throw a random number at it and say 150% for a total of 10 million tons a year), then adding the current power requirements of the world, we get 10.0008 million tons a year of usage. Even using those numbers (and the 80% extraction rate), we're at 319.97 years of boron resources left.

And shitballs...looking at Eti Maden's site, I just found the following that makes me wonder about my previous source:

I don't know if the first article is believable or not so I'll just say that we have between 94.07 and 319.97 years of power and industry in Boron...which isn't amazing but it isn't bad either.

I think that if they are armies of scientists the weapons would be anything but makeshift. We're talking mechs powered by mini two-laser fusion reactors blasting each other with plasma rifles and missile volleys to weaken the energy shield around the Borax mine's defenses.

Fuck. Yes.

I appreciate your considered response and I rescind my previous comment about your logic being retarded given your reply. My sarcasm was intended to identify that this was not just the US...this was the leaders of almost all of the major world powers standing behind idiotic policies of easing regulations. Sure, there may have been louder voices (and the US was certainly one of them) but ultimately all those involved in this debacle need to be held accountable and I'm tired of the US shouldering the blame for ALL of it.

There are greedy assholes in positions of power everywhere willing to do almost anything for more power or more money and, if anything, those in the US and other 1st world countries have to be at least a LITTLE more wary about the way they go about severely bending the rules because they have to at least pretend to be accountable. Many of those who should be sharing in the responsibility can simply do what they want with little to no resistance and did so willingly and without prompting when this opportunity to commoditize these bad/risky debts through easing of regulations came about.

Unless he is in WITSEC and his death was faked, I'm pretty sure, no :)

I guess ODB2 could be his resurrected, upgraded self.

I have this problem constantly when referring to the OBD port. I can't seem to stop calling it ODB and I hum "I'm the ODB as you can see. Every eye, don't you be watchin' me"...every single time.

Wtf are you talking about? I didn't post anon...in fact, this is my real name idiot. That is as anti-anon as you can get.

I call shenanigans! SHENANIGANS!!!

NO ONE smiles when they pay their property taxes. All jokes aside, it sounds like you live in a newer area of the city that is more upscale and has a newer police station. The type of officers that get transferred to the new stations are either experienced and ready for retirement or they are consistently top performers and are ranking up by moving to the new station. The retirees don't mind just cruising around and they don't want to get out to give tickets unless they HAVE to. The top performers are looking to make an impression and they are on top of their game 24/7 (and lower ranked officers are pushed by these officers as well because they don't want the newbies to make them look bad).

Give it about 10 years and we'll see. This is the exact scenario my parents' dealt with when their home was completed ~15 years ago. For a long time there was a regular patrol of the area and my parents felt comfortable at all times. In two circumstances they had to call the police to report breakins to vehicles by some high schoolers but the police arrived within minutes and nabbed the kids. The key was their response time, though. Today, however, if you were to sit on the front porch for 24 hours you MAY see a single officer driving down the largest street in the area (which they live on). If you call to report a crime, you're waiting a minimum of an hour. Crime rates in the area have gone up in the last 10 years and the number of police at the local precinct has increased more than the crime rate so I'm not sure what they are doing all day. All I know is that one of the officers who used to be on regular patrol in the area 10 years ago can now be found parked behind Vons in the alley about 5 miles away...where there are no home...where there has never been a single reported breakin or suspicious activity.

A friend of mine used to work for that precinct and said everyone had gotten lazy so he left for a new precinct. Apparently the officer who parks behind Vons sleeps there 3-5 hrs a day but since all of the go-getters have moved on, he has become a Sergeant and can't really be fucked with. That's grounds for termination btw, except that another officer got sent home for a day for sleeping over 4 hours away and missing a call for a mugging 2 blocks away and was on patrol the next day. High five for mediocrity.

You realize that calling people common is akin to calling them peasants. Unless you are part of the English aristocracy, that also includes you. Good job with your caste system, mate! Make sure to get out of the way before you're horsewhipped.

You're both yo-yos...shut up ya yo-yos.

Seriously, there are way too many things wrong with this argument AND the original video by Professor Duane to even respond to without spending my entire day counterpointing. A child could tear apart this argument....who the fuck is Bennett Haselton and why should anyone be listening to him at all? I don't generally subscribe to the point of view that you have to 'be someone' to make good points but if you're going to come out of nowhere, don't be just another twit without any ability to argue logically. We have enough of those assholes on the partisan news networks that inform and divide our country daily (USA - if you live elsewhere you're probably familiar with this also).

Mr Haselton...if you are reading this, as I hope you are, go back to fighting censorship on the internet as opposed to trying to present any sort of arguments about civil rights and police encounters. If you want people to listen to you in any sort of public forum, you are going to need to go back to school and get yourself enrolled in some logic classes at the very least so you don't just spew out fallacies like diarrhea.

Totally agree...no other countries in the world are responsible in ANY way for the coming economic collapse. Clearly the US is filled with much more intelligent people working daily to exploit the rest of the world. Pony up the oil bitches.

Your logic is retarded but unfortunately you are right about the part where we want to control as much oil as possible...just like every other country in the world.

I threw up my hands when I saw "An MCSE cert helps here..." but then I read the rest of the sentence. Well played...well played.

Uhm. You can't have a low 'grade' fundamental element. You can have a lower purity level (which may be what you mean by grade) which can then be refined into a more pure 'higher grade'. Since there is a worldwide shortage outside of the US' apparent cache of helium, though, doesn't it make us look like we are metaphorically wiping our asses with our extra helium because we have so much when we throw it into balloons instead of treating is as a valuable resource?

I like balloons and I don't want to ruin a child's birthday, but I don't think it is necessarily a good use of the resource to have a floaty thing on a string that makes your voice sound funny and I don't think that the lack of floating balloons at parties will ruin anyone's day. Also, IANAScientist but I'm pretty sure that the 'low grade' helium is still suitable for experimentation and, with minimal refinement, can be used for medical purposes as well:

Ultimately it isn't like balloon helium is somehow a different thing than medical helium...in my opinion we are simply wasting an important resource for something frivolous. Balloons can be put on sticks...actually I think that might be more fun so that the children can beat one another with the balloons. But then one of them loses the balloon and stabs another child and....wait...ALL BALLOONS SHOULD BE ON STICKS.

I think this is less about mistrusting the mathematicians involved and moreso about mistrusting what happened to these algorithms after submittal. As you say, they were weakened by intentionally bad choices for parameters and due to the close relationship between NIST and the NSA, how can you trust that the original submissions actually do achieve the same level of security (and moreover, how can you trust that the submissions were not specifically selected due to the fact that the NSA is already able to reverse engineer them)? It isn't that the mathematicians and cryptographers are tainted - it is that the NSA has herpe-ghonno-syphil-aids coupled with incurable smallpox, H1N1, and the plague and therefore anything that they MAY have touched is likely infested.

It sucks that there is an 'guilt by association' element to it but in my mind it is justifiable to be suspicious so that the disease isn't spread, especially where something like standardized cipher suites (which are supposed to be secure) are concerned.

Sounds about right to me.

Its result is simultaneously all possible results for all possible sets of input data. It doesn't solve the problem...it solves all problems.