Gates’ nuclear initiative—Terrapower. May be a positive aspect, but so far it hasn’t gone very far. The issue is the architecture of energy. You need both distributed generation for redundancy and reliability as well as a base load capacity for consistent availability. As such, the smaller, distributed reactor technology that Terrapower is promoting may be complementary to LFTR, which is an ideal solution for baseload capacity given current technology.
But he still wants a lot fewer people on the planet.
Thanks for your reply.
LFTRs are “smaller, distributed” as well. They are likely one-tenth the capital cost of a nuclear plant, though it will take a few billion dollars to establish feasibility. Gates has directed that kind of money to his concept, so he has a better claim.