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[MasterSpam]

I’ve been following this as well. Very intriguing. Thought everybody worrying about sea animals becoming sushi but I call it chum. Start fishing a mile further out as the fish swim in to eat

Or the millions of birds that get sliced up by the windmills

 

[LastDayScout]

Chinese’s and Japanese are moving on this tech too. I think it’s great.

NOAA's official value for the total length of the U.S. shoreline is 153,646 kilometers (95,471 miles).

Seems like the USA should look into it as well.

 

[J Alynn]

Or the millions of birds that get sliced up by the windmills

That one always gets me. It’s not a cuisinart doing 120 rpm. Survival of the fittest if you can’t avoid one of those giant blades in glory of you

 

[THil08]

NJ shore towns shut the wind projects down, and most of the companies are pulling out of it. My town had lawn signs made to protest for it. Im so glad we shut that crap down. Especially since i witnessed first hand a dead whale on the beach, that suffered confusion from the floor scanning for these stupid wind things.

 

[Chavannigans]

This is why the idled/undamaged Three Mile Island reactor will be brougt back on line.
Also why Gates is funding some smaller salt cooled reactors in ID or maybe WY(?) and one of the larger nuclear facilities will be adding an addtional reactor, TN, Browns Ferry(?) and maybe Palos Verde in AZ. These are mainly due to data center draw as you point out.

Nuclear is the way of the future.

China is adding 2-3 reactors (And they are very dirty ones) a year, along with 10 coal fired plants (also without any real polution mitigation) EVERY YEAR.
Battery storage is becoming more feasable and other means of storage, mainly thermal, to store otherwise wasted PV and wind output.

Hydro is diminishing rapidily.

Where to get the power for EVs?

China recently demonstrated the ability to refuel a thorium reactor without shutting it down.

It’s seems they are pumping money into clean energy as well.

China makes thorium-based nuclear energy breakthrough using past US work

According to Chinese state media, a group of scientists recently managed to refuel a working thorium molten salt reactor without causing a shutdown — a feat never achieved before.

www.mining.com

 

[LastDayScout]

China recently demonstrated the ability to refuel a thorium reactor without shutting it down.

It’s seems they are pumping money into clean energy as well.

China makes thorium-based nuclear energy breakthrough using past US work

According to Chinese state media, a group of scientists recently managed to refuel a working thorium molten salt reactor without causing a shutdown — a feat never achieved before.

www.mining.com

If the numbers and supply mentioned in the article are correct, that’s truly amazing. I do not know the science used with thorium or salt reactors. I do understand the basics of how traditional nuclear reactors work.

 

[MasterSpam]

Don't worry... The California legislature is pushing for a $0.09 a mile 'road tax', supposedly to maintaine the roads like the $1.36 a gallon gas taxes are suposed to be doing... You see how well that is working out.