dont't forget old beer cans and banana peels ... after all, like old EV batteries, beer cans and banana peels contain atoms and stuff that can be fused ...
Will not produce any usable energy for over 100 years if ever.
Subsidy farming. Perfect model, since they don’t have to actually produce anything useful for ????? years.
Sounds like they should just fire up that coal plant again. Would be way cheaper and more useful. Just install a SCR to help control emissions and you’re good to go.
…but like everything else, this only works if the benefits are properly distributed, and our current sociopolitical systems aren’t all that great at doing that.”Isn’t it enough to just provide everybody with affordable, reliable electricity? I spent over 35 years in the power biz and that’s what we did. Not ONCE did any of us sit around pondering if “the benefits [we were producing were] properly distributed or if “our sociopolitical system was doing that properly.” Nope. We all had tough jobs to do delivering volts and amps 24x7.
dont't forget old beer cans and banana peels ... after all, like old EV batteries, beer cans and banana peels contain atoms and stuff that can be fused ...
You only need Q=1 to have viable fusion fission hybrid reactors that crank out PU239 by the metric tonnes per year. Humans have gotten to Q=1.54 and Q=1 is now just a normal thing.
This was 1979 and we as humans had the tech for fusion hybrids that traitor JCarter ruined not only our reprocessing program without that fusion hybrids are also out of reach.
A hybrid of 3000MWhthr puts out 1800kg of PU239 per year that’s enough for 18 to 20 CANDU reactors yearly fissile fuel needs. No other reactor tech on earth is more efficient in fissile use other than fast reactors with a breed ratio greater than 1. CANDU reactors have a C ratio of .8 for MOX PU based fuels PWRs are sub .6 and a crime against humanity to burn PU in such a waste of energy value.
There are two reasons hybrids never get the spotlight. One they would work today making net energy and fueling a vast fleet of regular reactors. So no grant money gravy train. Second is they make HUGE amounts of PU239 which is also the perfect weapons material a single hybrid would make enough for 180 kg weapons per year every year that scares the politico types. Humans need to get past the nuclear war thing if we are to survive as a species we will need breed reactors or fusion hybrids both make large amounts of PU which is the fuel that never ends there is so much uranium in the crust and oceans it’s inexhaustible at human use scales even with 10+ billion souls.
Remember this is 1979 and tech has moved past by leaps and bounds.
http://large.stanford.edu/publications/coal/references/docs/bethe.pdf
For those who really want to get into cold hard math this is a break down by joule and grams for the CANDU and natural mineable uranium. Since CANDU beats every other reactor tech except breeders all the numbers are less for PWR. Scroll all the way to the bottom to see the total resource vs reserves with a calculation for breeders as well. Then remember this is for world wide energy consumption levels not raising the 6 billion people in energy poverty to anywhere near middle European class levels.
This planet is over populated period full stop. Even if we burn baby burn and mine baby mine and drill baby drill 8 billion burn all that out in less than a generation at middle class energy consumption levels for all. So what people are saying if they don’t want to move our species to solar,nuclear fission and eventually fusion for all our energy needs they are saying keep billions in poverty so my lifestyle doesn’t have to change, or cost more for energy to make the transition that is coming regardless of generational greed.