Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by Retric on Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:50PM
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Surface level coal deposits are available across much of the globe, but let’s ignore that.
Agriculture can go a long way with animals, wood, and stone. Extracting energy from wind and rivers is easily attainable from that basis. At which point we would have serious energy to work with. Hydro electric dams provide 6.1% of the total U.S. electricity. That is plenty of energy to kick start industrial manufacturing and get to wide spread solar power.
The next civilization may be extracting most of it’s materials from our cities, but that’s an advantage if anything.
Agriculture can go a long way with animals, wood, and stone. Extracting energy from wind and rivers is easily attainable from that basis. At which point we would have serious energy to work with. Hydro electric dams provide 6.1% of the total U.S. electricity. That is plenty of energy to kick start industrial manufacturing and get to wide spread solar power.
The next civilization may be extracting most of it’s materials from our cities, but that’s an advantage if anything.