Sounds like Tesla Full Self Driving. Yes the marketeers are making more concrete bogus promises because buyers have otherwise gotten skeptical. It’s still best imho to treat the announcements as meaningless and wait to see reactors actually producing continuous power.
Molten thorium fission on the other hand does seem potentially useful on a large scale in a foreseeable timeframe.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
on 26 Aug 23:58
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What timeframe do you foresee for that?
chonkyninja@lemmy.world
on 27 Aug 03:45
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70 more years. Seeing as the tech already exists and we created a reactor about 70 years ago. Also thorium is only used to make plutonium.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
on 27 Aug 08:48
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I’m a bit more optimistic. It should be doable in fifty years.
For fusion? No idea. For thorium / molten salt (I mistakenly wrote molten thorium)? China has an experimental reactor operating right now, and they plan to build a lot of them:
The free-market will never attempt to solve energy shortages using proven technology like Nuclear Reactors because they can make more money with fossil fuels. why would they care about an unproven tech that is “50 years” and a trillion dollars away?
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml
on 28 Aug 14:18
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I thought it would use molten salt instead of steam \s
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Sounds like Tesla Full Self Driving. Yes the marketeers are making more concrete bogus promises because buyers have otherwise gotten skeptical. It’s still best imho to treat the announcements as meaningless and wait to see reactors actually producing continuous power.
Molten thorium fission on the other hand does seem potentially useful on a large scale in a foreseeable timeframe.
What timeframe do you foresee for that?
70 more years. Seeing as the tech already exists and we created a reactor about 70 years ago. Also thorium is only used to make plutonium.
I’m a bit more optimistic. It should be doable in fifty years.
For fusion? No idea. For thorium / molten salt (I mistakenly wrote molten thorium)? China has an experimental reactor operating right now, and they plan to build a lot of them:
neimagazine.com/…/china-refuels-thorium-reactor-w…
Good article. They’re certainly making progress but there is still a very long way to go. I still stand by the fifty years from my other comment.
The free-market will never attempt to solve energy shortages using proven technology like Nuclear Reactors because they can make more money with fossil fuels. why would they care about an unproven tech that is “50 years” and a trillion dollars away?
I thought it would use molten salt instead of steam \s
Is it producing steam?