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Klaralven

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4. Thorium fission reactors and later, fusion reactors.

Reply to hunter (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 28, 2021, 01:57 PM

Sep 2021

You need enough of them to run critical industries and support a population of about 1 billion.

The other 9 billion can subsist on intermittent power.

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If God Intended Humans Were To Have Free Energy For Billions Of Years [View all] DanieRains Sep 2021 OP

There's a lot more than two of them out there..... RockRaven Sep 2021 #1

Too bad the sun doesn't shine all the time... hunter Sep 2021 #2

Thorium fission reactors and later, fusion reactors. Klaralven Sep 2021 #4

I don't quite understand the fascination with thorium reactors... hunter Sep 2021 #7

Because there's no such thing as energy storage? lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #10

Not all solar is intermittent. Mosby Sep 2021 #5

Battery and thermal storage is measured in minutes. At most hours. hunter Sep 2021 #8

There are numerous storage schemes in the works. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #12

I haven't been able to make that math work... hunter Sep 2021 #17

Last I checked... Miguelito Loveless Sep 2021 #6

Pretty sure that's true. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #11

You mean the sun isnt made to rise from the depths by the sky gods with their flaming chariots? Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #16

Blasphemy and heresy are my specialty Miguelito Loveless Sep 2021 #18

Beauty!!! (nt) ProfessorGAC Sep 2021 #20

Have you ever been with your mom when she's removed from a church for her heresies? hunter Sep 2021 #21

I was explaining the Star Wars premise yesterday.. carpetbagger Sep 2021 #3

That's my nightmare vision with nuclear power, either fusion or fission... hunter Sep 2021 #9

No, God would have given us the ability to use nuclear energy here on earth. former9thward Sep 2021 #13

Waste storage costs do it for me., Gore1FL Sep 2021 #14

Technology is not static. former9thward Sep 2021 #15

Assuming we come up with a something cheaper than burying it and guarding it, sure. Gore1FL Sep 2021 #19

Meanwhile we ignore all that shit with a half life of fucking forever. hunter Sep 2021 #22

Greenhouse gasses have been largely ignored as weapons, so there is that. Gore1FL Sep 2021 #23

Nuclear power technology is seventy years old, so it's not "someday..." hunter Sep 2021 #24

I haven't heard of "impossible batteries." Are they like nuclear reactors that run on unobtainium? Gore1FL Sep 2021 #25

I'd rather not eat grass. hunter Sep 2021 #26

Fossil fuels certainly have their short comings. Gore1FL Sep 2021 #27