Re:Old salt mine is the first emission-free compressed air e...
by Akronymus on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @06:04AM
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On top of that, we are VERY likely gonna get either fusion or space based mining within the time we have left before exhausting the "easily" reached uranium.
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Re:Old salt mine is the first emission-free compressed air e...
by pfdietz on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:25AM
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Fusion is very questionable -- it has inherently poor features from an engineering/cost point of view, and space is a terrible place to mine uranium or thorium. Earth is actually the best place in the solar system to mine uranium, as the element is concentrated by something like three orders of magnitude in the continental crust over average chondritic abundance.