I think Romania is going to be a testing ground for the SMR. Hopefully it's a success
Romanian-Polish cooperation on NuScale SMR deployment
Romanian utility Nuclearelectrica and Polish copper and silver producer KGHM Polska Miedź SA have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in the development of small modular reactors. Both companies have previously signed agreements with NuScale of the USA on the...www.world-nuclear-news.org
You drive a hard bargain but for reliability's sake I would not trust your reconditioning.I've been conditioned to believe anything SMR-related is shit.
CMR/PMR for the win.
LIght water reactors. We need more of those like we need more holes in our heads. Freaking NRCNRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design
NuScale power module becomes the first SMR design certified by the NRC.www.energy.gov
kind of related but they just certified the first Modular reactor
Probably - once the grid infrastructure is upgraded and some companies develop longer term grid level energy storage options. The current grid level storage systems are based around something like 4 hours of storage. I'm still for building newer Gen 4 fission reactors, but the NRC has been dragging their butts on approvals for even pilot plants for the past 10-15 years. There are many options for more friendly fuel cycles, the ability to use existing nuclear 'waste' as a fuel source, etc., etc. Reliable baseload capacity. Just stop putting them near lakes, oceans and highly active earthquake zones.U.S. can get to 100% clean energy with wind, water, solar and zero nuclear, Stanford professor says
Stanford professor Mark Jacobson sees a way to clean energy in the U.S. by 2050 with 100% wind, water and solar (no fossil fuels, no nuclear). Here's how.www.cnbc.com
One person opposed to a shotgun approach as a waste of money.
Yep. Hot fusion sure is.Oh, and fusion is till just an experiment. A very costly experiment. Wake me up in 75 years and tell me how they are doing.
Yep, super high energy plasmas don't like to behave in a uniform and predictable manner. Shocking.Yep. Hot fusion sure is.
I think workable cold fusion systems will come out about the same time as room temperature superconductors. Which could easily be never as they are well past our current knowledge of materials science. I know, I'm a nattering ninny of negativismYep. Hot fusion sure is.
Yep. Physics is a crazy science these days. I've seen several papers that claim the Coulomb barrier at extremely short distances does not exist. It's an essential part of Lattice Confinement Fusion, H2 or D2 when absorbed in nano cracks of certain metals can fuse due to how close the atoms are to each other. In a tokomak they are trying to squeeze extremely hot gas to fuse in a strong magnetic field. I find that a hard stretch. They are stuck on how they "think" the sun does fusion.I think workable cold fusion systems will come out about the same time as room temperature superconductors. Which could easily be never as they are well past our current knowledge of materials science. I know, I'm a nattering ninny of negativism
My extremely ill-informed bigbrain theory about a lot of edge physics is that most of this shit is just coded as an approximation in our simulation, never intended to be probed by an intelligence, therefore seems illogical at first blush. Throw galactic rotation, the constant discovery of earlier and earlier galaxies of advanced formation which make no sense, and the lack of comingling of classic and quantum physics in that same bucket.Yep. Physics is a crazy science these days. I've seen several papers that claim the Coulomb barrier at extremely short distances does not exist. It's an essential part of Lattice Confinement Fusion, H2 or D2 when absorbed in nano cracks of certain metals can fuse due to how close the atoms are to each other. In a tokomak they are trying to squeeze extremely hot gas to fuse in a strong magnetic field. I find that a hard stretch. They are stuck on how they "think" the sun does fusion.
Anyway, yea, someone needs to redo their experiments for room temp superconductivity.
There is physics base on physical reality, but there is more physics based on mathematical constructs that may not reflect actual physical reality.
Stunning room-temperature-superconductor claim is retracted (nature.com)
Just stop putting them near lakes, oceans and highly active earthquake zones.
More reason for hope from solar:
The fastest energy change in history
Solar and wind are being installed at a rate that is three times faster than all other new electricity sources combined. This offers compelling market-based evidence that PV and wind are now the most competitive and practical methods for deploying new generating capacity.www.pv-magazine.com
“Renewables [will] become the largest source of global electricity generation by early 2025, surpassing coal,” it added.
According to its “main-case forecast,” the IEA expects renewables to account for nearly 40% of worldwide electricity output in 2027, coinciding with a fall in the share of coal, natural gas and nuclear generation.
In its largest-ever upward revision to its renewable power forecast, the IEA now expects the world’s renewable capacity to surge by nearly 2,400 gigawatts between 2022 and 2027 — the same amount as the “entire installed power capacity of China today.”
Thanks. Never looked in the actual cooling water use. ~2kL per MWh! Ugh!Probably not going to happen:
Water is needed for cooling, lots of it.
More on the is modern physics representing the physical world, or just math.Yep. Physics is a crazy science these days. I've seen several papers that claim the Coulomb barrier at extremely short distances does not exist. It's an essential part of Lattice Confinement Fusion, H2 or D2 when absorbed in nano cracks of certain metals can fuse due to how close the atoms are to each other. In a tokomak they are trying to squeeze extremely hot gas to fuse in a strong magnetic field. I find that a hard stretch. They are stuck on how they "think" the sun does fusion.
Anyway, yea, someone needs to redo their experiments for room temp superconductivity.
There is physics base on physical reality, but there is more physics based on mathematical constructs that may not reflect actual physical reality.
Stunning room-temperature-superconductor claim is retracted (nature.com)
Gisin speaks of making choices in adding precision to numbers. Is he referring to experimental design where how the number is observed determines the next digit? Intuitionist math has appeal in that eventually one hits a quantum limit in measuring things beyond which more digits are pointless. If math is to be employed as a model of how the universe works then it makes some sense that numbers are truncated when they reach the edge of what can be measured.This one was very understandable and interesting.
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math. | Quanta Magazine
Input 2.05 MJ.That experiment briefly achieved what's known as fusion ignition by generating 3.15 megajoules of energy output after the laser delivered 2.05 megajoules to the target, the Energy Department said.
Wrong thread, superconductor thread is over there ->So, when will my Apple Watch battery last a year??? Thats what I'm waiting for with this technology. A better battery.
You want a fusion reactor on your wrist? WTFSo, when will my Apple Watch battery last a year??? Thats what I'm waiting for with this technology. A better battery.
Only possible thing I can come up with is remote charging, why -> superconductor thread.You want a fusion reactor on your wrist? WTF
Everyone knows it goes in your chest.You want a fusion reactor on your wrist? WTF
It's in the works.So, when will my Apple Watch battery last a year??? Thats what I'm waiting for with this technology. A better battery.