Yep, a bit more than the 125 gallon a day unit I have, but you needed it.
I live in Eastern Colorado, haven't heard anything about this. If it's a thorium reactor I'm very pleased.
"Thorium is the bomb -- one reason being, it isn't."
That right there!!!
That right there!!!
One thing is for sure ... if the world seriously wants 'green' energy and lights that turn on when you want ... storage technology needs to get light years ahead of where it's at now -or- large nuke stations are required for grid stability/base load whilst providing mostly 'green' energy in an ever evolving world of unstable renewable supplies. I like most energy forms, and there is a place for most, but our politicians at most levels have no idea and will send us all down a path that ensures a stable supply as we know it today will no longer exist ...
They haven't produced a fusion reactor that produces more energy than it consumes as of late. However even Fusion reactors will produce nuclear waste, just not in the quantities that a Fission Reactor will. Fusion releases neutrons which bombard the containment structures in turn creating radio active isotopes. We need to develope this technology quickly, however since time going back to the 1950's they continually have said fusion reactors are 10 years off. Interesting sidenote, Philo Farnsworth inventor of the modern television actually invented a device called the Farnsworth Fusor, a small fusion reactor that some college students, hobbyists and even a high schooler or two have built.
Unfortunately not, no commercial source currently for thorium fuel and no commercial plants.
Colorado had a nuke plant owned by Xcel Energy and it was located in Platteville Co. I worked for and retired from Xcel. I worked at the station as an Equipment Operator. Ft. St. Vrain was a gas cooled reactor or HTGR. Gas coolant was helium. It was decommissioned twenty years ago and the station now has half a dozen combustion turbines generating over 1000mw.
We almost had black Fox back in the 80s. Now sofidel sits where it was going to be.
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