Posted on 03/27/2015 9:38:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I Think They Should name the Yucca site
in Honor of Sen Harriet Nuclear dumping site.
We have pretty regular posts here at Free Republic on 4th Generation MSR nuclear reactors.
These reactors use either waste uranium to start up thorium reactions or they use purely waste uranium.
Nuclear reactors today use less than 5% of the energy available in uranium. Next generation reactors will use the rest. They’ll create electricity at prices so cheap that it will help kill the cost of water desalination and transport. As a result will be economical to desalinate water from the pacific and pump it inland to Nevada. Or just pump Mississippi flood waters west to south pass in Wyoming and let gravity take it the rest of the way.
5-10 years from now Yucca mountain will be considered a windfall and goldmine for Nevada and the reason that nevada’s deserts will have been turned green as palm springs
Sounds good to me. If nothing else it will provide juice for all those electric vehicles the govt is forcing on the marketplace.
Thanks for the info.
Excellent post, thanks.
Its only a matter of time —say four years—before price/performance of electric cars reaches that of internal combustion engine based cars. That will in turn set off the most beautiful competition in the history of the world to the benefit of car buying public. There’s one more player I’m also convinced will be in the game. That’s the fuel cell cars. They’re not as far along in the USA. But they’re getting a lot of traction and investment in Japan. Fuel cell cars have great engineers in both Germany and Japan behind them with deep pockets. They’re going to be in the mix.
The result will be that starting in about 5 years gasoline prices will start to go down. It will be inexorable and terrible for oil companies but fabulous for energy consumers.
The down side is that the left will get the credit for this move... in energy and money will flow from mid continent to the coasts.
The answer for the pubbies is that they need to do something even more dramatic. Green energy is just looking for price parity with cheapest coal/natural gas. Pubbies need to announce that they’re going to kill the cost of electricity and water. So as to make it cheap enough to farm the deserts and pull water out of the ocean for California.
That will do it. That’s the sort of pubbie technological vision that is in tune with times and trumps the dem green energy vision.
Well Dingy got sideways with somebody. I’m betting the mob as you cannot come up with a way he sustained those injuries falling off a treadmill. Somebody beat the stew out of him.
ive been or had been... listening to Dr Bill Wattenburg..on the radio for years. He’s discussed the vast advances in nuclear design for abut as long.
the future it is not squashed by EPA types looks great
yeah I’ve been hearing about the changes in 4th gen nuclear designs coming from a half dozen different sources. 4th gen is not like nuclear fusion that’s always 20 years in the future. 4th gen will have the first protoypes in under 5 years. Alas they may not be in the USA.
Nah, Harry is stepping down to spend more time with his treadmill.
The french are using American designs...that we arent....
its about time we are allowed to get with the program!
I envy that person. Opening a can of whoopass on Pinky would be a good time.
In honor of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), designate the first load of nuclear waste interred at Yucca Mountain the Harry Reid Memorial Nuclear Waste Memorial Dump Site (HRMNWDS). A glowing deposit of Harry’s best waste.
No - AFixed.treadmillMob enforcer brought down Harry Reid...
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