theUpsideDown

Did they ever get throttling figured out on nukes? Or is it just the baseline energy foundation and we still need gas and coal on top of them? Wind and solar as available.

If you could really throttle up and down a reactor you might have something game changing.

waldo135

There’s a design that melts sodium (I think) during low demand creating a massive underground ‘battery’ for high demand.

Gspeed

https://www.terrapower.com/

NuGuy

The next true revolution in energy won't be where most people expect. Look for sources that don't have "stupid money" attached to it. Stupid money is chasing EV with current battery tech, solar, and these stupid flying pods that will never work under the current system. Stupid money isn't investing, stupid money is parking cash looking to get a Google-sized hit of returns. Stupid money doesn't pay attention to physics, thermodynamics, engineering or anything else. Stupid money is hawking real estate flipping seminars at your local Holiday Inn or pushing gold on late night TV. Stupid money is being run by the people you knew in college, who majored in "business", spent most of those years blotto, slid though their MBA, and thanks to mom or dad or alumni contacts failed their way up into a fund management position that earns less than your garden variety SP500 index fund.

The real revolution won't be any of these flash in the pan mail drops whose sole business is generating press releases and bilking investor cash. It will come either from serious, heavy hitting outfits with long term R&D, who commit real resources, but have no interest in blabbing about it, or some mom-n-pop who remembers that more advances come from "gee, that looks funny" than "eureka!"

OOfff

so where is your speculative money invested?

Mesabah

I’m invested in terrapower, however it’s extremely risky because a lot of powerful people will probably NOT want that tech being available. A lot of industrial processes moved to China because environmental regulations make it impossible to do here, however, a molten salt heat battery now makes them emission free, and significantly less expensive to do at home.

NuGuy

Nowhere. If I want to play the lotto, I'll buy a ticket. If I want to play slots, I'll go to a casino. Least maybe there I'll get a free watered down drink with whatever well swill they're passing out.

Want to make money? Philosophically speaking, bet on the house. Win or lose, they always take their cut.

Used office furniture is where it's at. Not only to they get inventory for pennies on the dollar, but they're always the first to be in the know. Some of that very stuff decorates my house. That part of "Wall Street" with the janitorial service? That was the one part of the movie that was no BS.

Nantonaku

You do know even Buffet has a hard time beating the S&P. Basically no one reliably beats it over time.

Trip7

Stop this silliness. First, Buffett has destroyed the S&P 500 over the long term.

Secondly, Buffett manages Billions in investments in addition to a collection of operating businesses within BRK. His investment choices are rather limited with a capital pool is that big. You don't run Billions of dollars. You're a small retail investor that can invest in anything around the globe. You can and should be able to beat Buffett and the S&P 500

Lastly, Buffett delivered 50%+ annualized returns when he was a small investor. Any Delta pilot that can do 4th Grade Math can deliver half those gains (25% annualized) and still destroy the S&P 500

Blackjack

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Trip7

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From one of my favorite investing books, A Random Walk Down Wallstreet:


We should have known that investments in transforming technologies have often proved unrewarding for investors. In the 1850s, the railroad was widely expected to greatly increase the efficiency of communications and commerce. It certainly did so, but it did not justify the prices of railroad stocks, which rose to enormous speculative heights before collapsing in August 1857. A century later, airlines and television manufacturers transformed our country, but most of the early investors lost their shirts. The key to investing is not how much an industry will affect society or even how much it will grow, but rather its ability to make and sustain profits. And history tells us that eventually all excessively exuberant markets succumb to the laws of gravity. The consistent losers in the market, from my personal experience, are those who are unable to resist being swept up in some kind of tulip-bulb craze. It is not hard, really, to make money in the market. As we shall see later, an investor who simply buys and holds a broad-based portfolio of stocks can make reasonably generous long-run returns.


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