The 1950, 1960 guy would have nukes leading the pack.
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yeah you have that right. the two big exciting things of the 50’s and 60’s were space travel and unlimited dirt cheap nuclear power.
neither happened.
space travel was too expensive and complicated. but that is slowly changing.
the USA actually did develop a nuclear power that would have just collapsed the cost of energy. it was based in lftr thorium reactors designed by the head of the oak ridge laboratories alvin weinberg. (he also held the original patents on current light water reactors)There were two working models that ran from roughly 1966-1970.
http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-molton-sakt-reactors-will-robably_18.html
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/04/liquid-fluoride-thorium-power-pros-cons/
When nuclear power was first pushed by the AEC, it was going to be so cheap that it wouldn’t even be metered at residential homes - the only cost being infrastructure maintenance. Ho, ho, ho.