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12-30-2019 | 10:36 AM
#541
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
It's probably not expensive if done right.
I'm curious to see how these natural fission batteries work in practice. The left is trying to shut them down, however.https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...n-Clean-Energy
I'm curious to see how these natural fission batteries work in practice. The left is trying to shut them down, however.https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...n-Clean-Energy
An RTG is more what I'd describe as a "battery".
I'm guessing actual fission since they seem to be dancing around the topic of how it works. It would be possible to build a sort of "solid state" fission plant with low enough core energy density such that liquid cooling is not required, which could allow a much smaller and less-complex plant.
No reason this can't work but personally it seems safer to consolidate fission generation in large plants rather than spread out through the community?
12-30-2019 | 12:49 PM
#542
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The article doesn't specify whether it's an RTG or an actual critical fission plant.
An RTG is more what I'd describe as a "battery".
I'm guessing actual fission since they seem to be dancing around the topic of how it works. It would be possible to build a sort of "solid state" fission plant with low enough core energy density such that liquid cooling is not required, which could allow a much smaller and less-complex plant.
No reason this can't work but personally it seems safer to consolidate fission generation in large plants rather than spread out through the community?
An RTG is more what I'd describe as a "battery".
I'm guessing actual fission since they seem to be dancing around the topic of how it works. It would be possible to build a sort of "solid state" fission plant with low enough core energy density such that liquid cooling is not required, which could allow a much smaller and less-complex plant.
No reason this can't work but personally it seems safer to consolidate fission generation in large plants rather than spread out through the community?
Yeah, I'm a big fan of large power plants, however, after the left successfully trashed V.C. Summer, that ship has probably sailed in the US.
12-30-2019 | 05:18 PM
#543
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"People making bad investments makes me right."
No, it shows one dimensional thinking.
There is infrastructure to consider, ya know, one road in and one road out for the Keys. Someone loses. Either the home owners in the low lying areas or the tax payers for the entire state.
No, it shows one dimensional thinking.
There is infrastructure to consider, ya know, one road in and one road out for the Keys. Someone loses. Either the home owners in the low lying areas or the tax payers for the entire state.
12-30-2019 | 08:58 PM
#544
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From: Capt
The Navy just got a patent for a very small fission reactor. It is designed to power the UFO-type craft that they patented a couple of months ago. It is VERY fast, travels under water, in the air, and in space. The craft doesn't experience the laws of physics, because it is surrounded by an electro-magnetic force field. It is an advancement of the system on the B2, where the e-m force field reduces the force of the drag from air molecules, so it is much more efficient than the older model aircraft.
01-04-2020 | 01:11 PM
#545
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01-05-2020 | 06:57 PM
#546
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From: Baja Vermont
Well, in 2004, the Pentagon was supposedly suppressing a report that predicted Britain would be like Siberia by now. How’s it working there?
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...article_inline
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...article_inline
