Climate News: part 3

[crimsonaudio]

 

[arthurdawg]

View attachment 56709

I'm of the opinion that next gen nuclear is our best single option. Along with a backbone of renewable.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I'm of the opinion that next gen nuclear is our best single option. Along with a backbone of renewable.

New fission is amazing.

Once we get fusion down we're all set. Power will be as ubiquitous as atmospheric nitrogen. And we're *this* close.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I'm of the opinion that next gen nuclear is our best single option. Along with a backbone of renewable.

Three Mile Island set us back 50 years on that. I’m not saying it SHOULD have, but the generations who saw it (substantially) were around when we bombed Japan in 1945. Their minds already had a template on nuclear, and that (and later Chernobyl) really hit the fear sensor, not that l blame them.

 

[arthurdawg]

Three Mile Island set us back 50 years on that. I’m not saying it SHOULD have, but the generations who saw it (substantially) were around when we bombed Japan in 1945. Their minds already had a template on nuclear, and that (and later Chernobyl) really hit the fear sensor, not that l blame them.

Yes... The Chenobyl RBMK reactors were literally ticking atomic bombs... Add to that the fire in the control room at Brown's Ferry started by using a candle to assess for drafts in the basement!

The newer ones just shut themselves down, particularly the liquid sodium designs. I don't think anything is fullproof, but the margin of safety is shifted far to the favorable side.

I hope we make the leap for fusion soon... But I still think we are probably decades out for implementation. We also need to look into a superconducting network to let us transfer power from one region to another more easily. Not cheap, but such infrastructure is what we need to remain strong.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I hope we make the leap for fusion soon... But I still think we are probably decades out for implementation.

I can’t really say much here but one of my children is working for a company bringing commercial fusion online. I can’t say much as my kid can’t tell me much, but from the publicly shared documents they’re likely to have a commercial fusion reactor online before 2030…

 

[arthurdawg]

I can’t really say much here but one of my children is working for a company bringing commercial fusion online. I can’t say much as my kid can’t tell me much, but from the publicly shared documents they’re likely to have a commercial fusion reactor online before 2030…

I'll take it...