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Posted on 10/01/2016 10:29:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
She got confused between airplanes and bumblebees.
It doesn’t matter a lick unless someone gets beyone lithium batteries. As Elon Musk himself says, Tesla itself will consume the worlds lithium supply in one year once full production is achieved. The price of batteries is approaching the point where electric cars no longer are viable.
ROFL
The obvious solution: build more nuclear power plants.
And not merely nuclear power plants, but Thorium-fueled Molten Salt plants. They have huge advantages over Uranium-Fueled Light Water plants, not the least of which is that they are not capable of core meltdown. They get too hot, the molten Salt merely leaks out of the jacket, into the containment basin, no spewing of vast quantities of radioactive compounds all over the neighborhood. There is much more thorium in the earth’s crust (some four times as much) as uranium, it is not nearly so hard to process, and it does not become fissile on its own. The thorium reaction REQUIRES the presence of some quantity of “spent” uranium fuel rods, to initiate the fissile chain reaction.
And they can be built so much more quickly than uranium plants, because of the size (Thorium plants may be scaled to much smaller size than uranium plants), and also because huge steam release containment vessels are not necessary.
The engineering was done years ago, the design is feasible, and the plants may be located much closer to the point of end use than Uranium plants, because of the relative safety factor. You know why the thorium plants are not in much wider use? Because they do not produce plutonium (nuclear bomb material), and uranium plants do, which makes the uranium plant valuable as a weapons grade material source.
“What? Have the Unicorns quit jogging on their treadmills?”
Treadmills? I thought they pooped rainbow skittles that were used in cold fusion reactors.
Yeah, you want your neighbors to know it’s you crashing the grid when you plug in your Volt.
There are ways to vastly increase the production and distribution of hydrogen fuel, but there has not yet been enough infrastructure developed.
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It takes a lot of energy to produce hydrogen as well. It doesn’t come out of thin air.
The cheapest method to produce hydrogen gas is the steam reformation process, where methane is reacted with high-temperature steam in the presence of a nickel catalyst (produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide) with a secondary reaction between the resultant carbon monoxide and steam over metal oxides (usually iron oxide) to yield carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas. Thanks to the global warming liars in government, the additional expense of carbon dioxide sequestration eats up revenue unnecessarily.
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Sounds like a winner.
Aside from the nuclear weapon fuel, how much does preserving energy monopolies for companies like Duke Energy have to do with the freeze on building?
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