[Iron Munro]

There is another revolution coming in water — but its probably a decade or two off. That revolution will be when the cost of desalination and transport is cheap enough so that water on any desert coast can be desalinated and pumped 1000 miles inland to grow crops competitively on world markets.
This is coming.
It will turn the world’s deserts green and double the size of the habitable earth.

Yep - all that's needed is a reliable source of power, and lots of it.

Well, solar power, windmills and unicorn farts won't do it.

If only mankind had developed a technology to power something like that.

Too bad we didn't find a way to harness the power of the atom and use nuclear power to run electric generating plants.

Or to power submarines, aircraft carriers and unmanned interplanetary space vehicles.

[ckilmer]

Well, solar power, windmills and unicorn farts won’t do it.
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Agree.
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Too bad we didn’t find a way to harness the power of the atom and use nuclear power to run electric generating plants.
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Well there’s plenty of work going on right now in 4th generation nuclear reactors with msr lftr designs. These designs are often lifted from some successful prototypes that were completed in the late 1960s. These reactors promise to drop the price of electricity to 1/4-1/10th current cheapest coal/natural gas created electricity.

Prototypes on these are expected out in 5 years of so. A number of countries are working on them.