Time for some reconditioning.

[Trexller]

Originally Posted by Duik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thorium, fixed it for you.
I like your idea, but as usual its prolly not just one of our collective stupidities that fucks us over. Nuclear power ftw. Thorium salt reactors. Still need research but in my novice understanding look promising and dont produce weapons grade waste furthermore can use some forms of plutonium in their reactors. Way too sensible to be adopted.

Thorium is still a huge maybe among 1000 other maybe alternatives. you say it still needs research, which is a massive understatement, that tech is still a twinkle in it's fathers eye.

Uranium fission remains the cleanest, vastly the most abundant source of energy that humanity currently has access to.

The folks out there who always cite "Chernobyl and Three mile island" are wildly misguided.

the 1986 Chernobyl event was yet another in a long string of screw-ups that occured under the Russians. The 1986 event was just too big to cover up, but they still tried. There were several "near misses" at the plant before the "catastrophic" melt down. That plant was doomed to fail by politics, not implementation.

by comparison, Three mile island was absolutely nothing. the ultimate Nothing Burger. Some systems failed, cool heads prevailed, and prevented a total melt down.

In Pripyat, you need the government's permission to go within 30 kilometers of the site.

In Pennsylvania, I drive by the three mile island...island, several times a month. until recently it was still in operation, it never financially recovered from its "fallout".

TMI is a running joke in this area. Chernobyl is a fear in Ukraine.

but "muh radiation" try this on climate alarmist - coal plants burn such a vast quantity of material that they produce more ambient radiation than fission plants.

until renewable energy sources can meet the demand for electricity, fission plants are the only ones which can meet demand, without burning fossil fuels.

I have absolutely no idea where the greenies think that they are going to generate the electricity for 3 billion electric vehicles, when we cannot meet the demands for a hot day in July.