Beltiras

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by Beltiras 7y ago
1$/watt capital costs and 2.5c/kwhr. This blows every other competitor out of the water. I was stunned when I started to research the economics of 4th gen. It's going to win in the end.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
It's simple really. They need to be cheaper than fossil fuels. Can't find the link right now but I remember reading about it being possible with a little subsidy (way less than oil companies are getting now).
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by Beltiras 7y ago
1 $/watt capital costs and 2.5c/kWhr for 4th gen nuclear. Solar needs to be a heck of a lot cheaper to compete with that. All you need for 4th gen to appeal to regulators is one country starting it and showing success. Indonesia w
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Absolutely. We need all angles at the problem to find a solution. We also need to mitigate the damage we know can't be prevented. Shipping is 12% of CO2 emissions. It's a little bit harder to nail down (found a staggering figure o
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Thorcon means to retrofit shipyards to mass produce the reactors and service as refueling stations.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Jet fuel can be generated carbon neutrally with these 4th gen reactors. They provide high enough thermals to split water and hydrogen energy efficiently and any process where you generate hydrogen you can very easily produce hydrocarbons in
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I'm not talking about currently running solid-fuel reactors that burn only 0.3% of their fuel. I'm talking about 4th gen liquid fuel reactors that manage to burn 99.7% of their fuels (bonus: can burn the waste fuels old reactors l
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Thorcon is using 20% enriched U-235. Their design can accomodate the Thorium fuel cycle in the future but for now it's mostly repurposed nuclear wastes.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I don't remember the figures. There are plenty of videos on Youtube with presentations from the Thorcon team. I think it's 250MW electric, 500MW thermal that the design delivers.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
If Greenpeace only knew the damage they did back in the 80's and 90's... Granted that nuclear power back then was primitive and dangerous. You are absolutely right. Most of the innovative projects are putting up shop in less devel
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Thorcon aims to transform a shipyard into a factory for these things. Their plan is to mass-produce 250MW reactors.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Three most important things for 1.5C are: 1. Stop burning coal 2. Get shipping off oil and onto renewables 3. DAC efforts need to be stepped up, both biological and technological All of those are achieved by turning to Gen 4 nuclear reactor
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by Beltiras 7y ago
If Medicare 4 All is adopted then that would free up a lot of folks from that predicament.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Looks like it wasn't the transport method that was vulnerable. Doesn't matter if you use Signal if the "vault" where you keep the messages can be broken into.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I've been a 10X in the past. I don't exactly know why it faded away. Might be that I really REALLY believed in the mission back then but haven't found the spark for anything since. I'm not sure I exuded the toxicity you
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by Beltiras 7y ago
This attitude works if you have a leader for a manager. Notsomuch if s/he's a boss.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I always have a plan. If you don't, you will just be chatting randomly. These meetings should be for your benefit and address workplace issues that your manager can solve somehow. You should beforehand have a good idea of what a succes
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by Beltiras 7y ago
It's been a while.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I don't think that translates well here. There aren't very many new projects being started up using Fortran. There are some. But the vast majority of Fortran is shrinking legacy because we have better solutions to those problems
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by Beltiras 7y ago
That's the thing. Thorium doesn't sound to me like an incremental change at all. It sounds like a gamechanger. There is no blast radius. At all. Criticality in that sense is not possible. There's improvement along every measu
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by Beltiras 7y ago
And we understand it to be rather dangerous in failure modes. TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima all revolved around failure modes with water. The failure mode in Thorium is stopping the reactor. Will take a month or more to restart the reaction.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I'm just a layman with enthusiastic interest. Can I ask you about one thing in this pipeline of decision making since you are in the field? Refueling is easier to do in MSRs and nigh takes away an embarrassing long downtime while the s
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I haven't researched those issues but apparently it could be done with stone age tech (1960's) compared to the material sciences we have today.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
It was proven to work back in the 60's. With way worse material tech than we have today. The reinvigoration of Thorium research happened when that design was declassified and shared with some NASA folks. EDIT: wrong decade
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by Beltiras 7y ago
If we moved to Thorium the supply is virtually endless.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I'm amazed that the industry is still propagating the mistake made in the early nuclear age of using PWR and solid fuel. The more I read about nuclear the more convinced I become that SMRs for next gen plants are safest and most effici
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Less empire, more democracy.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
It must be because I have worked with advocates for disabled people. I don't see the funny aspect. I'm glad for the laws. Either they apply or they do not. Either our hearing-disabled brothers and sisters are equal or they are not
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by Beltiras 7y ago
I think it's just transparently obvious that the plaintiff is right. Youtube is autogenerating CCs.
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by Beltiras 7y ago
Bad people running PR at Boeing. If you have bad news it's best to get it all out at once. Instead it's been months of drip-drip-drip that is starting to look like the 737 MAX just won't fly again. The Boeing brand is tainte

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