I wonder what McCain thinks about this idea.

I thought the Grand Canyon was a national park. Something about the article is fishy. Where is the drilling supposed to take place?

I thought the Grand Canyon was a national park. Something about the article is fishy. Where is the drilling supposed to take place?

The story's short on details. But a few years back the Havasupais, who live in the general Grand Canyon ecosystem, tried to block Energy Fuels Nuclear from mining in land they deemed sacred. The Indians didn't exactly win their case, but EFN (a shell company) eventually lost interest. Some big money will be at play if this story turns out to be true. There's already been quite a bit of uranium excavation overe on the North Rim up in the Arizona Strip.

Rich uranium lode in Virginia ripe for mining
Landowner will have to reverse ban enacted in 1982

Anita Kumar, Washington Post
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Chatham, Va. -- Underneath a plot of farmland in south central Virginia lies what is thought to be the largest deposit of uranium in the United States. Now, three decades after the deposit was found, landowner Walter Coles has set his sights on mining the 200-acre site despite concerns of environmental groups and residents about unearthed radioactive material that could contaminate the area's land, air and source of drinking water.

Scientists suggest that radioactive material on Earth sinks and helps keep the core hot. Our molten core is what produces the electromagnetic shield that protects Earth's atmosphere from being blown away by solar radiation. Mars doesn't have a molten core so it doesn't have electromagnetic protection, therefore it doesn't have an atmosphere anymore. Mars' core has frozen.

If radioactive material keeps the core hot shouldn't we expect our core to cool and solidify much faster than would occur naturally because we extract the source of heat?

Mars doesn't have a molten core so it doesn't have electromagnetic protection, therefore it doesn't have an atmosphere anymore. Mars' core has frozen.


But mars does haven an atmosphere. Next theory.