Why don't you have more subscribers? I was on a binge because of my curiosity around safer forms of nuclear power & stumbled on your channel. You don't paid your videos, you give clear straight to the point information & keep basic with hard facts on the subject matter. Yiu should have 100,000 subscribers.
The molten design is great all on its own for the full electricity demand. Now if you want to make it more expensive, more complex, and use far more land, you simply add renewables. The theory is that those renewables will already be on the grid and Moltex will replace natural gas. The nuclear folks using logic assume when those renewables wear out, they won't be replaced, oh but they will and that will keep electricity costs high forever. Have they removed the corn ethanol subsidies and mandates, even though they make no sense, no. The same thing will happen with wind and solar. I think Moltex is their own worst enemy, they pander to renewables all day long but as long as people think renewables have any value, they will reject nuclear and just scream batteries, renewables can do it all. They need to be honest about it, this technology will replace natural gas and renewables.
👌 Renewables only last 25-30 yrs. This will become problematic over centuries because of the materials necessary to make them. Nuclear (as you & Sean state) is the FUTURE of baseload, clean energy [RU-vid has a bot or paid TROLLs that DELETE factual comments]
Totally agree, the nuclear industry is pathetic in its pandering to renewables. It's like they don't believe in their own technology. If molten salt energy storage is indeed economically viable, it should be used with a power dense and reliable energy source in order to compensate for shifting demand. However, since most molten salt reactors in development will be able to ramp up and down with demand, there may not be much use for it.
I would use the same strategy that Moltex is using (for now) in saying that it will supplement renewables. Why? Because it's the best way to get a toehold into the market. Later, when wind and solar are found to be the albatrosses around everyone's neck as they always were, but no one would admit to, nuclear will overtake renewables as the only reliable energy source world wide. How long will this changeover take? Many decades I'm sure, but nuclear will predominate in the future.
@@paulbradford6475 The longer scientists pander to renewables, the longer that transition will take. People are afraid of nuclear power and if they think there's any hope that renewables can do it they won't accept nuclear.
@@paulbradford6475 Building your market strategy around a lie is immoral and is not going to work. The most important energy issue today is the insane, irrational momentum towards unreliable, dilute solar and wind and the criminalization of economical, reliable technologies like nuclear and fossil fuels. This is starting to become a real emergency. Swedish state TV just went public with an appeal for people to stop vacuuming their houses to conserve energy. Renewables is literally destroying modern civilization. You don't pander to this evil, you stop it, you destroy it and you make it extinct. Clearly in a thousand years we'll likely be using mostly nuclear whatever happens right now, but that's largely irrelevant today, when we're right in the middle of an energy crisis.
I am planning on storing heat in candle wax, but in my case the heat is for a hydronic heating. Right now I am using some 1960's Steffes brick heaters. right now the Steffes heaters use "off peak" electric, but my future plan will be able to use roof solar to also add heat.
@@jimgraham6722 I got 12 pallets of candle wax from an auction at $5 per pallet. it's got all kinds of odd pine cones and things since it was from a candle making company.
@@jimgraham6722the plan is to put the wax in a large tank with a large roll of pex as a heat exchanger. then the solar toughs will heat water and for backup I'll have an electric boiler connected to off peak.
Whatever happened to the idea of superconducting powerlines? They’d be super useful across many time zones. It could help accommodate the peak hours in each time zone.
It would certainly be a more efficient way to transport solar thermal and wind energy across long distances. However, they are much more expensive than traditional transmission lines.
@@RockLogicWithSeanKenny But how expensive ? If you had a superconducting powerline from the East Coast to the West Coast you can sell power when it is cheap on one coast to the other coast during peak hours, Then sell it the other way three hours later. Wouldn’t this generate a massive line of income?
Spot on Sean, molten salt has role in renewable as well as nuclear. Reality is wind and solar can fail (due adverse weather) over quite large areas for as much as seven days, possibly more. Batteries can't hack this, but pumped storage and molten salt have a better chance.
Another great video Sean. Keep up the great work. @dr mosfet below asks some good questions about how much waste is expected to be generated by new nukes (MSR's presumably?) Personally, I'd like to get out there and advocate for nuclear but as a private citizen, I need to visualize for anyone I'm talking to what the size of, say, a "can" of nuclear waste would be. How big would that can be? When people understand how small the amount of waste is actually in the world, and how safely it's stored, they'll start to come around. And when you tell them that this waste can be reused, well, they pause and give it some serious thought. Just musing here.
The way I like to describe the space taken is after about 50 years of service for a dual core plant, the average space taken up at a spent fuel pad is around 20 m x 60m or about the size of a small strip mall parking lot, or less than a third of the initial pad's size. The new reactor designs will be much more efficient and some will "run" on their own byproducts. Any spent fuel that would need to be cycled out of the newer designs will take up much less space than that mentioned above.
The complexity of the system and its inherent danger is still an issue. There are better materials for BIG batteries. Li-ion should remain in portable devices and electric transportation though [RU-vid has a bot or paid TROLLs that DELETE factual comments]
Bill Gates support for any product or technology for some reason make me nervous? Please when mentioning different types of reactors could you please tell us. How safe it is. How much waste it generates. How long is the waste dangerous.
These new generation plants are walk away safe, the plants shutdown and cooldown automatically by design, like how your car shuts down and cools down when you turn it off or runs out of gas, as in no need for the extensive band-aid safety and residual heat cooling systems of the plants designed in the '60s and '70s that are operating now. Also the new fast neutron plants will run on the spent fuel from the older designs. The spent fuel from the existing plants is stored in concrete and steel bunkers or casks, the background standing in between these bunkers and casks less than an international flight. After 50 years of operation the average space used by these bunkers and casks on a spent fuel pad for a dual core plant takes up less space than a small strip mall parking lot, or less than the real estate used for one wind turbine.
You might try asking people to like you after they see what you have to offer, not before. This kind of poor judgement does not improve the credibility of what you have to say.
The impact of these rather miniscule increases of CO2 in our atmosphere is poorly understood. It's not a good idea to bankrupt ourselves trying to fix what might very well be not much more than a continuation of the gentle warming trend that's been going on for circa 500 years. The poor in this country can hardly afford the high energy prices that the more wealthy seem hell bent on imposing on them. We seem to be in the grip of a mindless hysteria.
Trump's use of the word "hoax" referring to climate change was hyperbole, but he was right in believing that the gentle warming cycle to which you refer is real enough, yet not something to panic over.
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