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looping__lui | 5 months ago

Thats like available technology at German industry-need scale?

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pfdietz|5 months ago

If not, grow that industry. Just like one would have to do with nuclear if one were to adopt that technology. You do realize that existing burner reactors cannot power the world for more than a few decades, right? The available cheap uranium runs out. Breeder reactors are not commercially available, or available at a cost competitive even with existing commercial burner reactors.

(The French have given up on their breeder development program, cancelling Astrid, the proposed next project, until at least 2050.)

Renewables and storage seem much more quickly scalable than nuclear, as demonstrated by the yearly percentage rate of increase in their deployment.