On 20 February 2014 00:20, <[email protected]> wrote: > They may never have provided any electricity in the first place. I have > read, at length, some nuclear engineering papers, concerning accelerator > driven reactors, subcritical thorium, and bluntly, they are like fusion > reactors, they don't exist. There is research in a couple of places like > the UK and Belgium, maybe India and China, but its been over-sold, as we > don't have solid working models to evaluate. The closest working reactors > would be Canadian CANDU reactors. >
Taking this attitude, we would never have discovered powered flying machines, or invented agriculture. Assuming the things would work in theory, as far as we know, then we need to at least build a prototype before deciding it can't be done. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
