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Hah, atomic power is a great point of comparison: people in the "atomic age" expected atomic power to be everywhere. Electricity too cheap to measure, cars/plan
by tikhonj 2y ago
Hah, atomic power is a great point of comparison: people in the "atomic age" expected atomic power to be everywhere. Electricity too cheap to measure, cars/planes/appliances all powered by small nuclear reactors... That's without going into the real nonsense like radium toothpaste.
And here we are today where nuclear energy is limited to nuclear weapons, a small set of military vehicles and <10% of the world's electricity production. Not nothing, sure, but nothing like past predictions either.
- defrost 2y agoLast I checked the giant nuclear fusion reactor in the sky is driving an substantial increase in solar energy. The toothpaste and similar products were pretty ill advised, vaseline and uranium glass are still collectable and are seeing a ressurrence of new interest: https://old.reddit.com/r/uraniumglass/ https://old.reddit.com/r/uraniumglass/