I bet you think nuclear fusion is just around the corner as well.
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Currently nuclear fusion is 20 years off as it has been for the last 50 years.
Doesn’t sound like you have been following the thorium reactor research. Google lftr msr thorium reactors. I’m not going to do your work for you. Laboratories and high tech companies in the USA and China are gearing up for a high stakes very public battle in a couple years. Demos of these reactors are expected from a couple sources in the next five years. The reason everyone is so confident in this line of R&D is that these reactors were actually done in the late 1960’s. They were dumped because they were not dual use. At the time the USA wanted reactors that could be used for both peaceful purposes to make electricity —as well as to create material for nuclear bombs. That’s what the Iranians want to do now.
lftr msr thorium reactors can’t be used to make nuclear bombs but they can make very cheap electricity.
I’m a big fan of reclaimed water but that’s ths sort of work that will buy a decade or three of water for municipal purposes but is not a true 21st century solution.
You sound like a middle eastern guy. I can tell you the last Saudi that I talked with told me that the royals have promised a day to their people when the deserts of saudi arabia will be turned green. Arabs are not good researchers but the gulf arabs want to be respectable players in desalination research. They’re not focused on either reducing the cost of energy for obvious reasons— or the cost of maintenance which each represent 1/3 of the cost of desalination. They’re mostly focused on funding membrane research around the world which if successful will significantly reduce capital, maintenance and energy costs.
So far the most interesting membrane lab work I’ve seen however have come from American labs—most of it with primarily american funding.
> “Doesn’t sound like you have been following the thorium reactor research.”
I met and was selected directly by Admiral Rickover for his Navy Nuclear Power program. I know a great deal more than you would ever expect.
But you revealed you are all over the map. The words ‘distracted’ and ‘delusional’ can be added to ‘naive’, ‘inexperienced’ and ‘sophomoric’ as descriptors to your postings.