If the government is to spend money on research, it should be on nuclear and fusion. Those can supply us with energy for thousands of years.
If the government is to spend money on research, it should be on nuclear and fusion. Those can supply us with energy for thousands of years.
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agree with the fusion research. There are now about 5-6 small fusion companies in the USA. There’s also a canadian fusion company that already has funding from the canadian government.
As for fission, the best route is through the msr lftr portable reactors that use thorium or waste nuclear fuel. These promise to deliver base volumes of electricity at prices 1/4-1/10 current cheapest coal. The canadians already have a government funded program going on this. The chinese came over to the USA 4 years ago and took all the lftr msr thorium reactor plans that were developed from the late 60’s from working lftr reactors. The US DOE helped them to the info and continue to give them support. Now the Chinese have the most advanced lftr msr program in the world.
shesh. It makes me sick to think about this.
The chinese have basically done one better than the russians did during the US nuclear bomb program in WWII.
The russians stole US nuclear plans as they were being developed.
The Chinese have stolen US nuclear plans before they were fully developed. These plans have not been developed because of civilization loss of confidence. A terrible terrible thing.