[RayChuang88]

It could be a couple of decades before we see the first commercial "hot" fusion powerplant--that's too long to wait!

Meanwhile, a new technology that was actually successfully demonstrated during the 1960's called the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) could become available within a decade. Amazingly safe, LFTR's use a lot less actinide fuel to generate 1,000 MW than a similar generating capacity uranium reactor, and best of all, LFTR's generate very little radioactive waste, and the waste generated only has a half-life under 300 years, which means you don't need expensive storage facilities for the waste.

With perhaps hundreds of standardized-design 1,000 MW LFTR's operating all over the USA, we could satisfy American electrical needs for hundreds of years without unsightly large-scale wind farms that could be potentially dangerous to birds or solar power arrays that hog tens of square miles of land.

[marktwain]

With perhaps hundreds of standardized-design 1,000 MW LFTR's operating all over the USA, we could satisfy American electrical needs for hundreds of years without unsightly large-scale wind farms that could be potentially dangerous to birds or solar power arrays that hog tens of square miles of land.

We could, but the dumbed down left opposes it because it would be good for the capitalist United States. It is ok for France to have nuclear power. It is ok for Japan to have nuclear power, but the United States must be crippled because ... well, because it has been the most successful idea on the face of the earth.