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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by acidburnNSA on Sunday August 14, 2022 @01:58PM (#32461368)
Even fission is renewable (i.e. can power 100% of primary energy until the sun burns out) using breeder reactors, which can run with huge EROI on just the uranium and thorium traces in average crustal granite. Conveniently, breeder reactors were first demonstrated in 1952 in Idaho at the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1.

The term "renewable" is such a poor word for 'long-term sustainable'. I wish we had something that didn't make everyone think we were violating the laws of energy conservation.

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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by panick21_ on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:11PM (#32465447)
Renewable is an incredibly dumb term.

You know what was renewable, using whale oil. That's very renewable in fact, but somehow most people are against running the global economy on whale oil.

Fission is incredibly sustainable in the long term. In fact, even if we mined all the easily expressible thorium volcanic activity actually continuously brings up more.

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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by pfdietz on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:28PM (#32465528)
It's simply a label. Renewables are great because of their specific attributes, like cost and no CO2 emission, not because they are "renewable".
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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by panick21_ on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:57PM (#32465727)
Yes, and my point is, its a bad label.
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