On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:21 PM <[email protected]> wrote: *> That's the thing JC, its not always rationality, or compelled > rationality that rules us. Energy policy is performed outside of logic, or > even greed, but ideology.* >
Sadly that is true. > * > Will an era of energy shortages compel the Greens to yield to reason* > That's unlikely because, as you say, ideology is extremely resistant to reason. No Ideologie has been formed through the use of logic so logic can't be used to change an ideologue's mind , to do that you'd need some sort of dramatic road to Damascus incident that had nothing to do with reason. *> if we were smarter would we have not already poured money into R&D for > MSR reactors decades ago* > Yes, the Molten-Salt Reactor at Oak Ridge was remarkably advanced considering it was built in the early 1960s, and it was very successful achieving all its design goals and more. It's only disadvantage, or at least it seemed like a disadvantage of the time, was that it produced virtually no Plutonium that could be used in bombs, and that was considered to be a wonderful side benefit of the light water Uranium reactors we use in most reactors today. CANDU reactors are the exception to that, but the Oak Ridge reactor used liquid fuel which is inherently safer than solid fuel, CANDU still uses solid fuel. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> boa -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3-ZNuMeSm5rjW1TCz0Yd%3D_%2B0w_RO8etT%3D--web2_6Q1w%40mail.gmail.com.
