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You derailed the entire point of the article by taking a tangent into a completely different, essentially irrrelevant, discussion. “Bitcoin's electricity consu
by melling 9y ago
You derailed the entire point of the article by taking a tangent into a completely different, essentially irrrelevant, discussion.
“Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption 0.09%“
How about Bill Gates and Terrapower trying to build a new generation of nuclear power in China?
https://qz.com/627113/bill-gates-says-china-is-the-best-place-to-pursue-next-generation-nuclear-power/ https://qz.com/627113/bill-gates-says-china-is-the-best-plac...
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoTerraPower is interesting, especially since it recycles previously enriched uranium. On a side note, as far as the future of nuclear power goes, I'm more interested in LFTR designs and I think Flibe Energy is going to someone to watch here in the near future. http://flibe-energy.com/ http://flibe-energy.com/
- wbl 9y agoTotally OT, but have they cracked the corrosion issues?
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoThe last I remember hearing about it was that there is active research in a new Hastelloy-N plus Titanium alloy combo that supposedly eliminates corrosion and neutron embrittlement. http://moltensalt.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/references/static/downloads/pdf/ORNL-TM-6002.pdf http://moltensalt.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ref...
- QAPereo 9y agoI like the notion of Bi-Pb eutectic designs myself, but LFTR is much more likely in the near term.
- novalis78 9y ago...or Thorcon Power. Bitcoin mining puts an interesting economic incentive on cheap energy production and chip efficiency. That and its implications always fascinated me.