unlike solar and wind

Well when you consider a significant portion of humanity is on coasts. It's not *that* insignificant.

You still have the battery problem

well those are big power plants, you can store power there

thats centralized so its fine

decentralized power storage is expensive

You cant control output on tidal, solar and wind

In terms of generation

Sure. But unlike wind or solar it's a constant stream of energy. It doesn't need to be stored. It can be used fo help supplement the grid.

There is this thing called supply and demand

i really wanna see humanity colonize mars

put all the nuclear waste there

Nit enough demand and too much supply will overload the system

unless we can just use it

theres no real waste from nukes

Not enough supply and too much demand and then you get blackouts

well its one thing

and its free

of course wont power everything

Gen 4 reactors eat nuclear waste

And uses it as fuel

thorium is a good decentralized option

That too

and its common af

plus not dangerous

Cant be used to make nukes

lasts really long

Plenty of safeguards

i kinda wonder what uses there are to the waste of thorium

Hardly any waste.

The big benefit to thorium is the half-life

i think burning thorium makes lutetium and some other stuff

300 years and the fuel can be reused

no clue what thats used for

probably has some use

And the waste it does produce loses it toxicity fairly quickly.

We cant use waste from nuclear material generation

i remember people on another server talking about graphene batteries

that graphene is kinda hard to make at the moment but can store a lot

Those are an interesting research project for sure

and its basically just carbon and silicon