Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by eru 5678 days ago
Thorium, fusion or fast breeders. The biggest cost of current nuclear fission reactors is in the initial capital outlay (and regulatory uncertainty). The price of Uran is low; if the price would go up, more reserves would surely be found.

I agree, that using coal on a large scale isn't a good idea. (That includes the current scale.)

I agree with all the actuals / current data with you. I just don't see that we will need to use less energy in the long run.

1 comments

> I just don't see that we will need to use less energy in the long run.

I don't think we'll really have the choice :) It looks like thorium is at least 20 to 30 years away, and fusion... 50, 100 years, who knows ?