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| US Energy Independence by 2020 |
| 2011-01-02 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 We don't need thorium reactors. Modern conventional reactors with recycling of the fuel would work just fine. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2011-01-02 21:09 |
| #5 Thorium reactors may seem like a good concept. However, we have a long, long way to go before we can build a 1000 megawatt plant for $3B. We have even further to go before we can build lots of them all at once. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2011-01-02 19:18 |
| #4 Imagine if Obama / Congress had used the stimulus to build a 100 standard design nuclear plants and completed the Yucca mountain storage facility. We'd have 100 gigawatts of non-fossil fuel generating capacity coming online now instead of ... essentially nothing. |
| Posted by: CincinnatusChili 2011-01-02 17:23 |
| #3 Gorb: I don't think their plans are nearly so benign as that. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-01-02 17:19 |
| #2 They're going to halve the economy by then, I guess. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-01-02 16:43 |
| #1 Superficially, it looks like a great idea. No way in hell we could do it just 9 years from now. Our government & politicians are expertly organized to block anything as good as this, and the financial resources are all going elsewhere. Perhaps the finances aren't even there to be redirected. If the US experiences a real financial collapse, it could become 'energy independent' almost overnight. The US would be compelled to burn what it has on hand & stop importing any form of energy. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-02 16:31 |