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    6 hours ago, Shiva said:

    New technologies always evolve and get better and better as we innovate.

    Yes, green energy and also electric cars have their own problems, but we are now at a point where we have nearly exhausted the potential for innovation for combustion vehicles and nuclear power plants.

    There's a lot more room for innovation and improvement in the alternatives, so it makes sense to head in that direction.

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    1 hour ago, ajasatya said:

    As crazy as it sounds, our level of engineering is still very rudimentary. You can't make projections for the future without taking huge technology leaps into account.

    Very true, that's why it would be crazy to put a ban on them like what happened with psychedelics. It will be a big hindrance to the technological advancement in this field. But it definitely needs more advancement before they start pumping them out like hot waffles.

  7. Posted · Edited by fridjonk

    @outlandish There are no active thorium reactors as for now. But its just around the corner, there are many being built as we speak. Main reason they are not building them more rapidly is because of budget restrictions.

    But Terra Power and others have been investing heavily into it and it will become a thing in the next decades.

    Moving too quickly onto nuclear reactors would not be a wise move. xD

    I've been looking into thorium reactors disadvantages for the past days and apparently, there are none. 

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    @Leo Gura Germany has been called the first renewable energy economy and yet they emit twice as much CO2 as France that gets 80% of it's power from nuclear, and it's twice as expensive. It also requires massive lands be cleared as wind farms only give 2.5 watts per square meter, compared to nuclear's 1000 per square meter. 

    I think it would be disastrous to put a ban on nuclear reactors, especially when advancement in 4th gen molten salt reactors is rapidly increasing and waste can be reused as fuel for them multiple times. Combining nuclear and solar would very likely be the best solution.