@Ye4hBuddy Hey I like the idea of fusion as much of the next guy but lets do some thinking. The LFTR concept boasts small reactors with abundant fuel and really basic chemical and physical reactions. It can be mass produced like boeings and shipped out to replace coal plants. Fusion, if it ever nets energy (I am doubtful, maybe in 30 years) is complicated, deals with temperatures on MILLIONS of degrees (engineering nightmare) and produces more neutron radiation than fission. Fission is ready now
@BlenBlen Yes, fission is the present. I'm talking about the future. It is possible that we will find ways of controlling fusion in a small environment that is easily mass produced like the LFTR is now.
@Ye4hBuddy Hrmmmm, sure. I'm sure it's possible, it actually has some advantages (super high temperature is great for energy exchange, as you lose less energy while changing forms. ex: helium turbines are more efficient than steam). It's not something I'll see in my lifetime as a standard. They are scaling up the french fusion program into a utility generator right now, but it's basically a huge research project and we don't have the global infrastructure to roll those out for a few decades.
LFTR is the best energy solution that can be realized with current technology.
SevenSixTwoNato 1 month ago 2
People don't understand nuclear energy. LFTR is the future. It's elegant, and efficient. The future is fission. Free power forever.
BlenBlen 2 months ago
@BlenBlen Why wouldn't the future be fusion?
Ye4hBuddy 4 weeks ago
@Ye4hBuddy Hey I like the idea of fusion as much of the next guy but lets do some thinking. The LFTR concept boasts small reactors with abundant fuel and really basic chemical and physical reactions. It can be mass produced like boeings and shipped out to replace coal plants. Fusion, if it ever nets energy (I am doubtful, maybe in 30 years) is complicated, deals with temperatures on MILLIONS of degrees (engineering nightmare) and produces more neutron radiation than fission. Fission is ready now
BlenBlen 4 weeks ago
@BlenBlen Yes, fission is the present. I'm talking about the future. It is possible that we will find ways of controlling fusion in a small environment that is easily mass produced like the LFTR is now.
Ye4hBuddy 3 weeks ago
@Ye4hBuddy Hrmmmm, sure. I'm sure it's possible, it actually has some advantages (super high temperature is great for energy exchange, as you lose less energy while changing forms. ex: helium turbines are more efficient than steam). It's not something I'll see in my lifetime as a standard. They are scaling up the french fusion program into a utility generator right now, but it's basically a huge research project and we don't have the global infrastructure to roll those out for a few decades.
BlenBlen 3 weeks ago
I could use some of that plutonium, I need it to power my Delorean.
chaoinspace2 2 months ago
Awesome!
zetareticuli42 2 months ago
This guy is a lying scumbag. Fast talking masse death. What a moron.
Pallas89juno 2 months ago
@Pallas89juno
What is he lying about? Do you have anything to back that claim up with?
Mass death? Excuse me?
johnberrynix 2 months ago
Go Back to the drawing bored
blingmow101 3 months ago
LFTR ...it burns up nuclear waste and does not blow up (and small foot print)
got to love a guy that dresses down his lecture sooo much he calls Pu 238 ,,Stuff
rRobertSmith 4 months ago
@rRobertSmith People are very ignorant to the world of nuclear power let alone isotopes and their positive functions.
People hear "radioactive" or "nuclear material" and become hysteric.
johnberrynix 2 months ago
So ENCOURAGING to see YOUNG people addressing a BETTER future. Thank you.
deneicy 4 months ago