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September 21st 10, 03:24 PM
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(OT) : The Great Mother Earth Is Having Hot-and-Cold Flashes{Going Through Menopause}
On Sep 21, 5:30*am, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:
On 9/20/10 23:30 , bpnjensen wrote: Luckily, there is Thorium nuclear. *A SUPERB alternative to ordinary U or Pu fission, very plentiful fuel (about 1,000 years' worth), much shorter-lived waste ( a couple hundred vs a couple hundred thou), technology already there, India& *France among others will have these online in a couple of years, a great stopgap until we can move onward to efficient solar and/or Fusion. * *After you mentioned this, what, a few months ago, I did some extensive research into Thorium nuclear power. * *What I found was quite illuminating. And could, if implemented, alter the paradigm for nuclear power generation. * *Power plants could be practically and efficiently scalable, to grow with increasing demand instead of reaching exhaustion and then being replaced. They could be smaller, less intrusive, to meet with the aesthetic expectations of a modern environment. And the reaction is self regulating. The expensive, complex system for monitoring and throttling the reaction would be less massive, emergency systems could be less cumbersome, and the containment and environmental clear areas could be far smaller. With waste recyclable, and much of it reusable. * *Meaning, that every community could, conceivably, have nuclear power generation, and it could be transparent to the citizens, at far less cost per kilowatt-hour. * *Bridging to a trough system of solar collection, and, as they do in Israel, storing the heat in molten flouride salts underground for nighttime production, could put some enormous solar power generation on stream in only a few years' time. If fusion doesn't reach that bridge first. * *Bridging the gap between coal/gas generation today, with Thorium nuclear, until there is practical solar or fusion production, could, conceivably, put an end to rolling brown/blackouts, a sharp reduction in energy costs at the consumer level, with a transparent, and naturally evolving grid, and little, if any downside to the production. * *If it weren't for the politics, this could be exciting. Beautifully stated, Peter :-) |
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