It's the USA....over here! Remember us?
Posted on 12/07/2011 10:59:23 AM PST by Daffynition
BEIJING (AP) — Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor.
During a talk at China's Ministry of Science & Technology Wednesday, the billionaire said: "The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste."
Gates backs Washington-based TerraPower, which is developing a nuclear reactor that can run on depleted uranium.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
It's the USA....over here! Remember us?
When they get it all sorted out, we should steal it. We owe them that.
Thorium folks.
Bill Gates.....another big RAT contributer. Does helping China to enhance their nuclear capabilities make Gates a traitor?
Natural Thorium would be the best fuel approach in my opinion. Depleted Uranium is called that for a reason, there is no energy (radioactivity there). They use the stuff for bullets and shielding for goodness sakes...
A February article in The Wall Street Journal noted that TerraPower was at the time looking for a country to host the experimental reactor and that “current U.S. rules don’t even cover the type of technology TerraPower hopes to use.”
TerraPower is developing what is known as a traveling-wave reactor (TWR), which holds the promise of of clean-energy nuclear power. TWRs are smaller and cleaner reactors than the latest generation of conventional large nuclear power reactors being built. Small reactors also have the advantage of lower capital and operating costs. It is believed that they would run for years, perhaps decades, without refueling and will create less nuclear waste as they can use most of their own waste for fuel.
TWRs are designed to burn slowly from one end of a core to the other, this ‘wave’ breeding the fuel as it goes. The wave travels through the core at only one centimetre per year and the reaction requires a small amount of enriched uranium to get started so could run for decades without refueling. ”An established fleet of TWRs could operate without enrichment or reprocessing for millennia,” TerraPower claims.
Gates is a RAT supporter, but, it probably IS easier to develop such technology over in China than in the US, with all the enviro-fools, money-grubbing bureaucrats, agencies, and “eat-the-rich” OWS fools standing in his way. Unlike China (thank goodness), we don’t have the guts to bitch-slap these fools for standing in the way of progress.
Oh, Gates.
So, the Chinese will get to experience a nuclear version of the “blue screen of death”.
Let’s hope that the venture produces something with a bit more reliability than Gate’s joke of software that he’s fosted on the world.
It would cut China’s emissions.
Wonder if we’ll be hearing that the US government will be giving them low cost financial backing a la Solyndra.
Not sure if you’ve been keeping up with the news, but Japan is no longer an Imperial threat, Germans no longer goose-step and the USA is no longer the best country in the world to do business.
Yeah, what with the huge demand for new reactors in the U.S.A., why would anyone interested in developing nuclear plants go to China. /s
Has China become today’s Galt’s Gulch?
What he is proposing in the nuclear energy arena has already been invented and various versions are in production, so possibly what Gates is really proposing to the Chinese is that - like the path he took Microsoft on - he is willing to steal what others have already produced, claim it to be his and let them see if their bank accounts are big enough to defeat him in court, before making pennies-on-the dollars deals to let him have what they created - as was the course with many smaller software applications creators that Microsoft wanted to either eliminate competition from, buy-and-submerge-into-oblivion or obtain for themselves and one-way or another embed the guts of in their own apps.
We would easily crush China if we burned a few million pages of regulations. Cheap oil would also make a HUGE difference as would reasonable labor laws. Free America competed against a world of corrupt governments and slave labor for many years. China may have changed a bit to let our companies in, but it is we who have changed much more to drive our companies out.
Who is really the slave labor force? China? Or America?
In China, you can operate a small cash business out of a storefront, and the government couldn’t care less. Hell, they can’t even find you anyhow! “Mr. Chen! Mr. Chen! Is there a Mr. Chen running an illegal laundry service on this street?” No OSHA, no FDA, etc etc. Only until you start making a lot of money will you get noticed by the cleptocracy.
In America, you CAN’T even BEGIN to operate a business without paying fines, fees and forms that cost more than a few years of some tiny businesses. You can’t rent a building without some kind of zoning ruling, taxes, blh blah.
And when you get up and running, the government is your partner, taking 50% of your profits, and doing 0% of the work.
Slave labor? Really? You got poor people migrating to the megacities to get a job that doesn’t require shoveling pig slop. Lots of them are employees at restaurants, laundromats, roofers...etc.
So in many cases, a restaurant owner or worker, laundromat, roofer in China is more free than the equivalent American, up and until they get rich enough to get noticed.
In America, you’re a 50% slave from the get go, if you can even afford to get going.
Obama won’t allow new reactors to be built in the US. Gates is doing the right thing.
“Isn’t that special” -Church Lady..
So basically, they are “undepleting” the uranium ahead of the wave before the reaction hits it? Pretty cool.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.