[melling]

You derailed the entire point of the article by taking a tangent into a completely different, essentially irrrelevant, discussion.

“Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption 0.09%“

How about Bill Gates and Terrapower trying to build a new generation of nuclear power in China?

https://qz.com/627113/bill-gates-says-china-is-the-best-plac...

[Caveman_Coder]

TerraPower is interesting, especially since it recycles previously enriched uranium. On a side note, as far as the future of nuclear power goes, I'm more interested in LFTR designs and I think Flibe Energy is going to someone to watch here in the near future.

http://flibe-energy.com/

[novalis78]

...or Thorcon Power. Bitcoin mining puts an interesting economic incentive on cheap energy production and chip efficiency. That and its implications always fascinated me.

[QAPereo]

I like the notion of Bi-Pb eutectic designs myself, but LFTR is much more likely in the near term.

[wbl]

Totally OT, but have they cracked the corrosion issues?

[Caveman_Coder]

The last I remember hearing about it was that there is active research in a new Hastelloy-N plus Titanium alloy combo that supposedly eliminates corrosion and neutron embrittlement.

http://moltensalt.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ref...