Sounds like Tesla Full Self Driving. Yes the marketeers are making more concrete bogus promises because buyers have otherwise gotten skeptical. It’s still best imho to treat the announcements as meaningless and wait to see reactors actually producing continuous power.
Molten thorium fission on the other hand does seem potentially useful on a large scale in a foreseeable timeframe.
For fusion? No idea. For thorium / molten salt (I mistakenly wrote molten thorium)? China has an experimental reactor operating right now, and they plan to build a lot of them:
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Sounds like Tesla Full Self Driving. Yes the marketeers are making more concrete bogus promises because buyers have otherwise gotten skeptical. It’s still best imho to treat the announcements as meaningless and wait to see reactors actually producing continuous power.
Molten thorium fission on the other hand does seem potentially useful on a large scale in a foreseeable timeframe.
What timeframe do you foresee for that?
70 more years. Seeing as the tech already exists and we created a reactor about 70 years ago. Also thorium is only used to make plutonium.
I’m a bit more optimistic. It should be doable in fifty years.
For fusion? No idea. For thorium / molten salt (I mistakenly wrote molten thorium)? China has an experimental reactor operating right now, and they plan to build a lot of them:
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/china-refuels-thorium-reactor-without-shutdown/
Good article. They’re certainly making progress but there is still a very long way to go. I still stand by the fifty years from my other comment.