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Anyone interested in doing a startup which could help push thorium energy forward? I know and understand nothing about physics, but maybe there's room for progr
by gcv 17y ago
Anyone interested in doing a startup which could help push thorium energy forward? I know and understand nothing about physics, but maybe there's room for programmers to carve out their niche in something useful here.
Energy is the biggest problem humans face today.
- zitterbewegung 17y agoYou would probably require a ridiculous amount of VC funding to even make a plant. Also, you are competing with people with PhD's in the field doing research.
- gcv 17y agocompeting with people with PhDs Yes. This is the tragedy of programming and computer "science": you know everything about making tools and writing code to other people's specs — and nearly nothing about solving actual real-world problems. That's why I mentioned carving out a niche. I didn't intend to build a whole plant, but a company which comes up with software which helps people building plants might have a fighting chance.
- Locke1689 17y agoSounds like a solutions searching for a problem. Let's wait for the US to decide to build q new reactor first. You would also probably require experience writing real-time, fail-safe systems (like vxWorks) and a very high government security clearance.