| This is frustrating. ChatGPT that everyone is so fond of is run with electricity. So are cryptocurrencies. So is <insert new toy>. Passively safe nuclear power plants! From a note I sent to another person I would like us to have free energy though. I think that perhaps the point of life is to make the necessities of life so cheap as to be free so we can all sit around thinking deep thoughts and staring at the clouds. If you have any pull with the NRC I might mention (https://www.nuscalepower.com/en), base grid load capacity (https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Baseload_power), this (https://archy.deberker.com/the-uk-is-wasting-a-lot-of-wind-p...), and Djikstra's algorithm. In essence, each small scale passive power plant reactor, if optimally placed along the power grid, would produce much higher returns of energy to the grid than just their energy production rating. You can also make nuclear power plants shippable around the world by putting small charges around the core that would fragment the radioactive material and release a mixture of boron and concrete if the containment unit is opened. Which means that third world countries could have energy independence. The geometries and physics involved is a minor engineering problem, as opposed to fusion reactors that require theoretical physics. And people think that a search box that talks to you like the person sitting next to you on the subway (who you'd like to interact with as little as possible) does is important. Free energy is both possible and necessary and we're not building it. |
Work out the waste heat budget.
First law says no.
Work out the U235 budget.
Not having cancer says no.
Work out the Kr-85 budget.
The closest thing to free energy is solar, but even then this exponential growth nonsense needs to stop.