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  • Bob Cywinski, of the University of Huddersfield, said: "One tonne of thorium is equivalent to 200 tonnes of uranium and it doesn't need processing or enriching – 57 kilotonnes of thorium would provide the total energy need of the planet for a year, not just electricity but transport."

    Nuclear power is still popular in the UK 2011

  • By the Sixties they had created the Davy Crocket, a weapon operated by three men, carried in a rucksack by one, with a dial-operated yield selector, that adjusted the power of the weapon down to a few tonnes (not kilotonnes) of TNT.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Motor fuel use increased by 29 per cent, from 55,800 kilotonnes to 71,900 kilotonnes during this 14-year period, while residential fuel usage showed no significant change, the study said.

    09 « December « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • Motor fuel use increased by 29 per cent, from 55,800 kilotonnes to 71,900 kilotonnes during this 14-year period, while residential fuel usage showed no significant change, the study said.

    Emissions by individuals on the rise: StatsCan « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • “Your” (CDIAC) value is for 2003 and is 96657 kilotonnes per annum of carbon, which is equivalent to 354409 kilotonnes of CO2 (scaling by the ratio of the atomic weights, 44/12).

    Unthreaded #3 « Climate Audit 2007

  • However the value for “total” emissions including land-use change and forestry is 514585 kilotonnes per annum CO2-equivalent, or 45% larger than the “CO2-only value”!

    Unthreaded #3 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Preliminary estimates indicate that the yield of the explosion was less than 10 kilotonnes of

    Media Release - Min FA - Pakistan Nuclear Tests 1998

  • It had a yield estimated at the equivalent of between 40 and 150 kilotonnes of TNT.

    AUSTRALIA CONDEMNS CHINESE NUCLEAR TEST 1995

  • Cobre Panama project (one of the largest new copper projects in the global development pipeline with annual production expected to reach 275 kilotonnes per annum) and the political risk associated with Lundin's Tenke operation is diluted (13 per cent of our pro forma NAV versus 28 per cent of our Lundin NAV)

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Boyd Erman 2011

  • Cobre Panama project (one of the largest new copper projects in the global development pipeline with annual production expected to reach 275 kilotonnes per annum) and the political risk associated with Lundin's Tenke operation is diluted (13 per cent of our pro forma NAV versus 28 per cent of our Lundin NAV)

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Boyd Erman 2011

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