'Terrapower' and GE/Hitachi venture...i.e. their "Natrium" reactor project...
https://www.terrapower.com/terrapower-and-ge-hitachi-nuclear-energy-launch-natrium-technology/
Glad to see that the Biden administration is working with their counterparts on the other side of the aisle to get this important project built...all of us who were working on Fast Reactors over 40 years ago applaud that action..."Progress!"
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-terrapower-wyoming-coal-town-natrium-nuclear-power-plant-2021-11
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you can do better.
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very helpful. The ROI on that Bill is dismal, but this is great news.
lost moving it across lines.
pristine Wyoiming countryside. One of my favorite states.
Baron, I enjoy reading your post and replies to the primary three ultimate far left posters. Trump continues to occupy their minds. The two with advanced degrees reflect quite well the liberal education our college age children are faced with. Tyronirish(sp) is unbelievable! I am 81 yrs old and have seen and experienced the best and worst of what this country is about. I do not have guilt for for what happened in the past, I think we all need to move forward and try to be one country again. When I serviced in the Army 63-64, we were brothers!
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assuming that everything you don't like is the work of evil "Leftists".
No just pompous liberal elitist educators.
Since there are periods when the wind doesn't blow, storage is essential...and that is VERY COSTLY...
Case in point...in May/June of 2018, the U.K. experienced a "Wind Drought" that lasted for 13 days affecting its on-and-offshore wind farms...if they had no other sources of power, then the storage costs for batteries (e.g. Tesla 'PowerPack 2' commercial units @$160K ea.) would have been $1.2T for that time period...just for the battery costs, irrespective of all other necessary costs for operation and maintenance, etc....ALSO, batteries don't last forever, as we all know, and that investment would need to be repeated every 15-20 years...while a nuclear plant would continue to operate with 90+% availability for 60 years (as they do now).
Then there's the land use issue for Wind Power...you can only get 3W/sq. meter from wind (that's already been assessed), so just do the math on how much land is required to power the country...
But Wind Power does work...intermittently...so we need to identify uses for it with that caveat in mind...and where storage costs don't have to be so onerous.
Nukes can handle it all.
Solar, and they have millions of supporters...trying to implement a "Nuclear Only" strategy would simply slow down ANY progress...not very smart...if you want to make progress.
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