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Old 19-07-2011, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
Thorium. Unproven? Hardly!

A Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) was run in the US from 1965 to 1969. It was brilliant, they literally turned it off on the weekends and fired it up again on a Monday.
I reckon one day each dwelling or building will eventually have its own integrated self sufficient power cell and it will definitely be nuclear based. Or a very small local distribution plant supplying a given surface of household. There still would be need for a basic grid infrastructure for load balancing, distribution but very minimal. Each new structure would add to the "collective grid". I'm starting to sound like a borg. It's like the CT. Resistance is futile...
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