Molten Salt Reactors

Re:Molten Salt Reactors by dredmorbius on Saturday July 13, 2019 @03:50AM (#20427014)

There's no likelihood of batteries scaling to certain uses, such as large long-distance air transport, or marine shipping. Most trucking as well.

We either stop using those transport modes, or revert to prior forms (wind), or wire-based electrical systems (rail, canals, trucks).

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Re:Molten Salt Reactors by wffurr on Saturday July 13, 2019 @07:05AM (#20427491)

Or make fuel. There are all sorts of ways to make carbon neutral diesel and jet fuel. They just aren't economic compared to pumping it out of the ground unless the externalities of burning virgin fuels are priced in with regulation.

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Re:Molten Salt Reactors by dredmorbius on Saturday July 13, 2019 @01:05PM (#20428999)

Good point. I've been excited by fuel synthesis technologies, though they've proved difficult to develop at scale.

A Google X Project tried and failed.

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