If you made it this far?... Prof Ruzic has many worthwhile videos. His food irradiation video is fun with strawberries.
I’m still saving up for an F-15.
With this rig, will it be possible to bypass ERCOT?
If it isn’t made with Thorium, then it is a stupid choice. 5X more Thorium, the US has most of it, and no waste - at all. You can build a plant in a residential neighborhood, make it look like a home, and the only way you’d know it was a LFTR is the steam coming out of the chimney.
Sure it will. How about next couple of decades.
The demonstration reactor is planned to be constructed at a retired coal power plant site in Wyoming, so the electrical generation equipment can be re-used.
this sounds like the bill gates design.
The real future of small nuclear reactors is being done over seas. These are nuclear reactors that will be sited on barges and towed to their sites. They’ll be mass produced and create electricity for .02-.03@kwh—for starters. What they’ll do is enable vertical farms that are 100 stories tall to be built. Cities will become food independent. The demand for these reactors will be enormous.
The best of these reactors will be thorium based. There is currently one thorium reactor being tested in the US national labs. But when it passes tests—it will be produced in Indonesia—where a factory for mass production is already started.
I don’t have a lot of confidence in Bill Gates.
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He’s talking doing the job for 1 billion dollars How many retired coal plants are there? over 500. These reactors would be sited at retired coal plants where they could use the old boilers. Sounds good? What’s the bottom line? These reactors will produce electricity at a cost of.05@kwh.
The small mass produced floating reactors will produce electricity for starters at .02-.03@kwh
Gates’s reactor is already obsolete.
Very interesting concept. I still think the molten salt reactor (MSR) approach is better because it completely avoids the need for manufacturing and shipping fuel rods around the country. The fission products can be continuously removed by chemical means and don’t require handling of enriched U235 fuel which improves the safety of the entire system.
If it’s any good there will never be one built until after the Great Reset.
Cheap energy would really help the plebeians prosper and multiply, and we can’t have that.
Nuclear energy was vilified in the 70’s because the Deep State saw with horror how relatively clean, compact, and powerful they were in comparison to the established coal-burning and other fossil fuel plants, and its implication in driving down real energy costs over time. So they concocted the massive danger those plants presented, successfully convincing the average normie that nuclear = bad, bad, bad.
At the time of the vilification, smog was at its highest levels in the United States, so the big technological development was directed toward cleaning up fossil fuel emissions. They were very successful over the last four decades to doing so, to the point where the emissions of vehicles are rated at well over 99% conversion efficiency, compared to the low nineties in the 70’s.
My point is that if nuclear energy plant development and implementation wasn’t cut off at the pass in the 70’s, by diverting the same R&D resources as it did for the fossil fuel technology, energy companies could have literally created community sized “micro-plants” that provide all the energy needed for cities for normal use in facilities the size of high-school gym. The waste problem (expended rods, water) would have been solved and even created more opportunities with the ability to recycle that waste into different energy or product.
The effort to convert regional mega-sized nuclear plants to localized mini-plants would have been easier than the R&D to minimize the fossil fuel impact on the environment. I would even venture to say that completely-encased nuclear energy devices could have been used for mobile or even house energy needs, with each encased device providing enough power for a typical house for years.
Forget the “100-mile to the gallon carburetor” conspiracy theories: the developed nuclear fission engine would have created a car that ran until it wore out, let alone needed refueling. But I digress.
Frankly Scarlett I hardly know where to start.
I guess I’ll start with my big problem.
That would be the Governor of WY buying into a Bill Gates program that is as yet in my opinion unproven, and a dream.
Number two would be the fact WY the energy State, home to the collapsing Coal industry.
Number three would be the 500 or so shuttered coal fired generating facilities. Many of which are not just shuttered, they are closed and torn down to the dirt they were built on.
It is Government and bureaucracy at all levels and the morons in the environmental industry that are driving the insanity, hoping so called renewables will fill the energy void.
It doesn’t take much sense at all to see the nonsense that is destroying the reliability of the electrical grid nationwide.
So, Mr Governor, why is it you are urinating on the industry your State was built on in the wild hope that Mr Gates and a yet to be named city and shuttered powerplant will offer something you seem excited about though a dream in someone’s head. It is not yet constructed nor has it produced one KW hour of electricity.
Oh, by the way the shuttered plant produced far more energy than the Gates plant is even forecast to produce.
The Governor in my opinion should be getting the Liz Cheney treatment.