Who Killed the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR)?

[Bob Wallace]

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I asked you some questions which you did not answer.

The required change. I take that to mean the required change needed to get us off fossil fuels and to feed 9-10 billion people at the peak?

We're going to have to replace every single coal plant, every single gas plant, and every single nuclear plant in existence today, one way or another. Things wear out. The only questions are what we will use to replace them with and how rapidly we'll get the job done.

We already produce enough food to feed 9 billion people. We just lose a lot to spoilage, vermin and misuse. Africa produces 2x the amount of food it consumes but loses about half of their production because they don't have adequate transportation and storage facilities. That's food for one billion right there. And Africa could produce far more food with better agricultural practices.

Will we make the transition off fossil fuels fast enough to keep some of us from perishing from climate change? Probably passed that point already. We seem to have increased the frequency of major weather events and we're already taking out small numbers of us via floods, heat waves, forest fires, droughts, etc.

Will we improve our food systems fast enough to keep people from dying of starvation? Way too late to prevent everyone from dying of starvation, that's been going on throughout history.

Science is working hard to improve our production ability. China is bringing ag tech to Africa. We've probably got a decent chance of feeding everyone.

Will we crash our systems and kill off most of us? It's possible, but not a certainty. We probably still have a few years to get serious about reducing greenhouse gases. And we have the technology we need to replace fossil fuels.