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When fusion power comes online (20 years hopefully?) could we simply boil all of this sewage? Is the idea of near unlimited electricity a pipe-dream or do we h
by dm2 13y ago
When fusion power comes online (20 years hopefully?) could we simply boil all of this sewage?
Is the idea of near unlimited electricity a pipe-dream or do we have a chance of it becoming a reality in the near future?
Isn't there a possibility that the bacterial will eventually evolve into something that is resistant to UV radiation treatment?
- arethuza 13y agoI don't think there is any indication that fusion power plants would produce electricity that is much cheaper than current methods - fuel (uranium) costs are a relatively small part of the cost of operating a fission plant (16%-28%) and fusion plants look like they will be very complex engineering systems so the capex costs are still going to be pretty high (look at ITER and that won't even try to generate electricity). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_plants#Uranium_costs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_plan... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER I guess you could expose your sewage directly to the neutron flux of a fusion reactor.... :-)
- Crito 13y agoMaybe just use treated sewage water as the secondary coolant in a bog-standard pressurized water reactor? I'm not sure how many reactors you'd need to suck up a cities sewage supply though. Probably more than can be justified from a power demand perspective.