merpnderp comments on "What can a technologist do about climate change?"

By merpnderp

Peak uranium is about as believable as peak oil. And given that uranium is a tiny fraction on the operating cost of a nuclear plant, it is viable at much higher prices. Which means much lower yield ores can be used for fuel. |

And then there is thorium, which we have more of than we know what to do with.

Then there’s mining Uranium from the Ocean which puts a ceiling on the price of Uranium at 15x the current price. Economically unfeasible today, but it is the max it could ever cost.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-th…

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merpnderp comments on "What can a technologist do about climate change?"