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Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream
Daniel_Stuckey writes "TerraPower, the Gates-chaired nuclear power company, has garnered the most attention for pursuing traveling wave reactor tech, which runs entirely on spent uranium and would rarely need to be refueled. But Terrapower just quietly announced that it's going to start seriously exploring thorium power, too."
oblig: as long as the cores don't have a BSOD...
That would be bad.
But in all honesty, I do like that his efforts are being spent on something like this, where the benefit to humanity is great.
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I agree, it's time we take thorium seriously. And if Bill Gates is the one who makes it happen, more power to him! (pun not intended)
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Bill Gates as a person, separate from Microsoft does a lot of good in the world through his foundation and personal charitable contributions. When he stepped down as the CEO of MS, he got to hand the asshole mantle to Balmer who is now wearing that motherfucker like no one else can.
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Rumor has it the new thorium reactors will put out 640 kW, which oughta be enough for everybody.
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