Nuclear obviously... With the of advance technology today and security systems is the best choice...
More Nuclear, Coal or Natural gas power?
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I'd like to see more Nuclear and Coal. We have so much coal it would be a pity to not use it.
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I keep thinking we are going to hit a wall on mineral mining - either by who controls it - or once folks realize it might just be extreme surface extraction - so I lean towards mobile batteries and not fixed batteries …
That's changing btw.Europe has it figured out. Just burn wood!
Maybe you can tell this drives me crazy.
Companies HERE cutting down trees, heating it, shredding it, turning it into pellets, drying them, then shipping them overseas!
They get a pass because the fuel source is CARBON NEUTRAL!
What a JOKE.
Sorry for the rant.
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Capital costs are so low for NG/Coal compared to Nuclear. This is important because in my ideal world I'd have solar and I don't want those who don't have solar to have to pay a lot more $$ for maintaining a fleet of nukes.
In the US at least nuke operators have had to be kept at an extremely short and expensive leash because failure is not an option hence their comparatively outstanding record.
Im all for the Nuclear, nothing is more clean from any source of 24 hour electricity.
Coal ok but there is that nagging question of how much it can be cleaned up, most coal plants now meet EPA requirements for mercury but even though its greatly reduced I think its still there. I mean there are lakes in every state where you cant eat the fist because they contain it.
The USA also has an abundant supply of natural gas I believe and much cleaner.
(just this mornings thoughts)
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Hydro power isn't working out so great for China or the SW USA these days.
Wind and solar failed us Texans in Feb 2021
Ukraine is fixin to have a nuke power plant blown of the map
Do the math
Wind and solar failed us Texans in Feb 2021
Ukraine is fixin to have a nuke power plant blown of the map
Do the math
Texas failure is poor power grid design.
China is readying its first MSR Thorium reactor, we gave up on it early 70’s
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-molten-salt-reactor-cleared-for-start-up
The ultimate in safety and efficiency is coming soon.
Also almost completely solves the waste issue as you get 99% less waste and said waste is much more “potent” making it easier to reuse in passive applications.
Come up with an inexpensive, effective, easy way to separate hydrogen AND compress it, and sure, it will work.
Inexpensive, effective, easy
choose one as you won’t get all 3
assuming cheap is $9/gallon equivalent is cheap .
The laws of Physics prevent hydrogen from making sense.
$14,000 15 year high compression tanks by themselves make hydrogen kinda pointless and if you think an EV fire is bad…
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You don't need an MSR to use thorium, and you don't need one to eliminate the waste (hence breeder reactors). MSR has its own suite of challenges, mostly related to the molten salt component. Water is much easier to work with (which shouldn't be surprising). The salts can be extremely corrosive and have a significant impact on component longevity and reliability.
None of that means it's not a worthy challenge to pursue, but I do suspect that if China is forthcoming with their experience with this unit, that we'll see some rather significant reliability issues, at least at first.
There's a reason the first SMR constructed in the West will be a scaled-down 10th generation GE BWR.
This proven method has been tested, to net a whopping 15 MPG! (15:35 in the video for those who don't want to lose 15+ minutes of your life watching the whole thing). 
How did human interference cause the Fukushima nuclear disaster??
That wasn't human interference. It was failure to anticipate conditions. Nothing designed by man anticipates what man does not anticipate. When it comes to engineering decisions on matters that have almost zero probability, but vast destruction if the accident occurs, humans often "do not compute". Particularly if making everything totally bullet proof makes the entire project uneconomic.“Hey, you should probably move those back up generators.”
“Lol okay, but we won’t”
