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25-07-2023, 12:09 PM
As much as I don't like the guy, here's something productive he's doing.
NZ would be well suited to his small modular reactors.
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/bil...eakthrough
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Nope. I'd rather see non nuke alternatives explored further. Like the regenerative energy surfaces that use the human energy expended by walking or driving on them to power electric batteries. Safer. Cleaner. And local.
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In no p[articular order:
Hiroshima.
Nagasaki.
Three mile island.
Fukushima
Chernobyl
Onagawa
Sellafield
Chalk river.
A partial list only. I think we should tell Bill Gates where he can stick his 'breakthrough.'
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
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If this recent discovery of a room temperature superconductor turns out to be true, then I think we will see the advent of nuclear fusion happen within the decade.
We will literally be able to tear down every hydro dam, coal plant and wind mill with fusion energy. We will be laughing looking back at nuclear fission should that day arrive which I desperately hope it does.
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A forlorn hope I'm afraid, it's always been 10 years away each year since the early seventies.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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