Unless you are sitting in a cold dark cave beating a rock against the wall for fun, you are polluting the planet.
There isn't a direct correlation between fun/polluting. Some very fun things hardly pollute at all.
The great evil isn't in a minority doing things, it's in the great masses doing medium-polluting things and having no fun at all. eg. Soccer moms driving their SUVs, light polluters, etc.
Hey, life is short and I'm only on this planet for a short time.
Here we see a living, breathing example of the tragedy of the commons.
Huh? The worst polluters are the ones who drive oversized SUVs in the name of 'safety' - they're having no fun at all in their cars, I promise you.
OTOH a not-especially-polluting car can be an awful lot of fun to drive, eg. my MR2 gets about 30mpg and I don't drive it gently.
I want to know when old-fashioned human drivers will be held to the same driving standards as the ones proposed in that document.
...and have never heard of a thing called "Background Radiation".
(BR is natural though, not like that man-made stuff...)
"irregardless of..."
The other big problem is that the Oil companies bought all the patents for NiMH batteries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
NiMH are much smaller.
It's coal!
Which is nearly as bad!
Wealthy oil companies have a financial incentive to block efforts that would ultimately compete with their offerings.
You mean like buying up battery patents, etc., so nobody can put decent batteries in cars?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yeah, they do that.
The complications of the molten salt reactors are much more numerous than thorium reactor proponents would suggest, the reactor in Oak Ridge was hardly at commercial scale.
Weirdly enough, the solution to most of the complications is right there in the Wikipedia article (alongside the complication).
It's what we should have been investing in until renewables are advanced enough to take over.
But hey, we got the F35 instead. Winner!
I've got to hand it to the oil cartels: Telling the USA they'll have to drive tiny little cars if they want to save the planet was a smart piece of advertising.
It's not true though. You can knock a few liters off the engine in your SUV and get about the same power just by remapping the ECU. Rev the engine a bit instead, maybe add a turbo, you'll pull away from the lights just as well as before. Trying to produce big torque from a gasoline the engine running at 1500RPM is just a stupid waste of gasoline.
PS: SUVs and pick-ups would actually feel _better_ with diesel engines - and you'd halve the fuel consumption.
Thorium reactors could use most of that stockpiled waste as fuel.
Electric transport is around the corner. Oil for heating would be uneconomical if electricity was done properly. What's left? Only a fraction of the current oil consumption.
Aha! But it *does* re-enter the environment. How do you think it got underground in the first place?
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
