mkandes
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)
on Thursday December 22, 2016 @12:23PM (#13238725)
Maybe one day. My bet is that, at best, a commercially built one won't be switched on before 2065. ITER [1] is and will continue to be behind schedule and over budget, pushing back any follow on plans for DEMO [2], let alone the subsequent commercialization of that technology. Of course, there's always hope for a breakthrough.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
[2]
Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)
on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:02AM (#13235453)
We will probably have no better production-ready, scalable, (minimally) carbon-free option for energy production to combat climate change in our lifetimes.
If you don't believe me and you haven't seen a real scientist explain the scale of the energy problem in a cogent way, you should watch Nathan Lewis:
2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUKqx2uk-Gs
2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16IQhTiN6OI
If he cannot sell you, no one will ... and he's a solar guy.
Re:No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of Radioacti...
on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:23PM (#9689885)
"Dilute the son of a bitch."