Message from @shrikeclaw
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molten salts DO exist, the reactor design has just not be built full scale
most modern reactors just have vastly improved safety designs
yes meaning they have the same fundamental flaws
@Lucienne d'Anwyl - Salt melts when it gets hot.
That's literally a principle behind several nuclear power plant and energy storage designs. Dump enough heat into the salt to make it melt, and it becomes a viscous liquid that can be moved around.
same fuel cycle
you know mananimal
same closed loop water coolant design
what else exists in testing?
halite Melting point 800.7°C
fusion reactors
i wouldnt say fusion reactors exist tho
good luck with that
as any kind of useful thing lol
not the same thing
Fusion isn't going to be possible in a sustainable manner
not anytime soon
they have run an ACTUAL molten salt reactor at Oakidge
and it didnt end up going so well
iirc
they have never got fusion to be a net +
Ahh
thats only because they are still experimenting with containment for fusion
We'll eventually crack fusion, but we need to plan on it not happening for another century or two.
How do we solve the energy crisis, if fusion is 100-200 years away?
it DID go so welll
technology advances take time to work out the bugs
I remember when the donald sent like 2 tonnes of salt to CNN headquarters
haha
lol what else is there outside of containment fusion?
u want a gravity well on earth?
When exactly do we expect an energy crisis though
fun
millions of gerbils
earth is a gravity well
not suffficent for fusion
theyre experimenting with different things is all i can say
its going to have to be a mix of sources depending on what is locally avaliable
such as?
im no lead MIT researcher my dude
@ManAnimal - Fusion is possible, and it will happen, but we've been saying it's "30 years away" for the past 50 years. I think 100 years is a more realistic time scale. It's going to take time, but eventually we WILL crack the problem.
The world is going to look very different in 100 years let alone 200