In my opinion, the most daring and successful progressive accomplishments lead to the most enduring conservative periods. Conversion to solar power may be as large a step as Plato's invention of a republic. It may leave technical people with little to do. Bread and circuses may be back for a long stay.
The real trouble for nazism is the irrational aborance of genocide. You can take over Europe again and again but no solution really becomes final. It's the irrationalism that's the problem, the irrationalism.
There aren't any thorium reactors, but I recall the experiment aimed at one cracked pretty quick
Not clear what cooling would be needed to avoid that, supposing it could be avoided.
You are being dense now. Gas plants are 60% efficient, coal, 40, and nukes 30. Nukes are stuck down there because the fuel is fragile and can't operate at high temperature. To get the same amount of electricity, they need much more water for cooling. Thus, you can't replace coal with nukes, you can only substitute less generation when the cooling resource is maxed out.
Small quibble. A lot of dams are built for flood control with hydro power as a bonus. You want to count a whole river for cooling a nuclear plant, but some hydro is just gravy.
You forget that uranium is found with Geiger counters. Makes prospecting quick. How are the tarsands doing now? Same goes for uranium as renewables make electricity cheaper and cheaper.
Not at all. The 80 year number includes much poorer reserves than are presently being mined. Also, with everything else getting cheaper and nuclear getting more expensive, where is the incentive to go to extreme efforts?
At the current rate of consumption there is only about 80 years of economically viable uranium left. It will run out just like oil or coal or natural gas.
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You might want to read Reinventing Fire.
Fission will be displaced by fusion on that timescale.
In my opinion, the most daring and successful progressive accomplishments lead to the most enduring conservative periods. Conversion to solar power may be as large a step as Plato's invention of a republic. It may leave technical people with little to do. Bread and circuses may be back for a long stay.
Red Book says eighty years at the current rate of use.
The real trouble for nazism is the irrational aborance of genocide. You can take over Europe again and again but no solution really becomes final. It's the irrationalism that's the problem, the irrationalism.
One of those cracked screen phones could be set up to get audio streams off wifi. The Bluegrass radio app gets a bunch of eclectic stations.
Which are more expensive and so won't be built.
There aren't any thorium reactors, but I recall the experiment aimed at one cracked pretty quick Not clear what cooling would be needed to avoid that, supposing it could be avoided.
TFA has your answer. You are being goofy.
You are being dense now. Gas plants are 60% efficient, coal, 40, and nukes 30. Nukes are stuck down there because the fuel is fragile and can't operate at high temperature. To get the same amount of electricity, they need much more water for cooling. Thus, you can't replace coal with nukes, you can only substitute less generation when the cooling resource is maxed out.
Turns out you are mistaken. http://thesolutionsproject.org...
Small quibble. A lot of dams are built for flood control with hydro power as a bonus. You want to count a whole river for cooling a nuclear plant, but some hydro is just gravy.
You forget that uranium is found with Geiger counters. Makes prospecting quick. How are the tarsands doing now? Same goes for uranium as renewables make electricity cheaper and cheaper.
http://renewableenergysolar.ne... they are made of sand. The walrus and the carpenter had a good cry about how abundant sand is.
You seem confused about the meaning of the word 'spent.'
Solar panels are made of sand and are 200 times more energy dense than coal. You've made a mistake in your assumptions.
It's called spent fuel for a reason: it's spent.
Not at all. The 80 year number includes much poorer reserves than are presently being mined. Also, with everything else getting cheaper and nuclear getting more expensive, where is the incentive to go to extreme efforts?
Count on China not to remake our misakes #TMI
Impossible to build that many nuclear ships.
At the current rate of consumption there is only about 80 years of economically viable uranium left. It will run out just like oil or coal or natural gas.
You might like this http://slashdot.org/journal/25...
Cute! Non-operating plants like Fukushima and Chernobyl have good safety records too....
RTFA
If you are concerned with some far future scenario, then you misunderstand the proposal.