agesilaus wrote:
All of these pie in the sky suggestions has major drawbacks. Just build nuke plants in the first place, save fossil fuel for petrochem and transportation
And where will the fuel as well as exotic metals come from for these highly dangerous plants?
6 years to build, perhaps 60 years at best of life, and then 20 years to decommission a plant.
We (gluttons that we are) currently us 15 terawatts of power. Even doing 1 TW via nuclear would stretch resources to the limit.
And finally, there is no agreed upon way to manage the waste.
https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.html
