Re:The Necessity of Nuclear
by jacquesm on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:30PM
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I don't think your TLDR accurately covers the entire article, but fine. As for the rest, the big thing missing is that the per-capita energy consumption has been on the rise for as long as we have electricity. It's at 2.5 MWh/y or thereabouts. As developing countries move up on the ladder their consumption will increase, drastically so.
This is going to cause substantial challenges.
Personally, I'd love to see a Manhattan style project to get us to fusion. We know that it can be done, we have a shining example for proof of that every day.
And in the meantime throw every $, Euro or Yen aimed at more nuclear power based on fission either at the fusion project or at renewables. You can build an awful lot of windmills for the price of one nuclear plant, and you can do it a lot quicker too.
Re:The Necessity of Nuclear
by viraptor on Sunday October 13, 2019 @08:18PM
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And some of the increase is in our interest to happen. Moving cars from petrol to electric makes sense since we have ways to generate electricity is reasonable ways.
This is going to cause substantial challenges.
Personally, I'd love to see a Manhattan style project to get us to fusion. We know that it can be done, we have a shining example for proof of that every day.
And in the meantime throw every $, Euro or Yen aimed at more nuclear power based on fission either at the fusion project or at renewables. You can build an awful lot of windmills for the price of one nuclear plant, and you can do it a lot quicker too.