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Can't wait for an Elon Musk type investor tackle Thorium based Molten Salt reactors. The public opposition to nuclear needs to be changed with positive counter
by novalis78 10y ago
Can't wait for an Elon Musk type investor tackle Thorium based Molten Salt reactors. The public opposition to nuclear needs to be changed with positive counter examples.
- thrillgore 10y agoIt won't happen. MSRs may be a great idea on paper but solar scaling cheaply negates the need or interest in using them for small communes. Other political factors such as the inherit stigma around nuclear and the upheaval of the defense-sector supply chain make them a harder sell.
- caoilte 10y agoWon't happen. Why get energy from incredibly rare and cumbersome isotopes when the sun shines every day?
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoBecause it goes dark every night. Because solar farms are disastrous to the environment as they sterilize the ecosystem in their shade. Because Thorium is neither rare nor cumbersome.
- fnordfnordfnord 10y agoThorium isn't rare. You probably have enough in your lawn to supply your lifetime energy needs. Also, it's a waste product of rare earths mining, and there's a United States stockpile of 3.2 million kg of thorium nitrate that nobody knows what to do with.