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To: John W

For the love of the Almighty revoke Jimmy Carter’s ban on nuclear reprocessing and build out modular fast reactors like they are building in WY on a former coal plant site. 300MW with 500MW peak rating molten salt loop between it’s thermal plant and it’s secondary and primary sodium loops meltdown impossible based on physics of the fuel and sodium pool. Sodium salts down react violently with metallic sodium they already are fully oxidized. You can.use the high temp salt loop for.desalination, district heat or cooling and industrial heating or cooking it’s 600+F using a high temp heat pump you can get to 1000C and then go for cement kiln heat or turn biomass into syngas for synthetic fuels on massive scale think Jet A and ship plus railroad fuels things that will never be electric. Trucks for regional the Tesla Semi is proving to be a solid technology answer on a cents per mile basis.

Long haul should be on trains it’s four times more efficient and doesn’t trash our roads at 16,000 times the wear rates of light duty vehicles but trucker unions will never allow the shift to rail for long haul and only regional trucking. So synthetic natural gas makes sense or hydrogen or alcohols all of which are clean burning something diesel cannot do again due to its long carbon chains soot vs NOx is always a trade off Sir Newton must be honored.

Build nukes by the hundreds in an Henry Ford style line.


44 posted on 04/06/2024 9:53:41 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath
... trucker unions will never allow the shift to rail for long haul ...

I doubt that Amazon, FedEx, UPS, DHL and other shippers would be very happy with it either.

81 posted on 04/08/2024 3:54:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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