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Comment Re:What a LFTR really means (Score 3, Informative) 258

Fluoride salt used in the LFTR is not caustic. It is in fact chemically very inert. Fission products dissolved in the salt are not water soluble either.

If it cools off and solidifies, you just heat up the salt again (e.g. using electric heaters) and continue operating the reactor. Oh, and if the solidified salt comes into contact with water, nothing will happen (as it is not water soluble).

Flibe Energy is working with the U.S. military on making a small reactor that can be deployed at Forward Operating Bases during war. You don't think they would be doing that unless the reactor design is fairly resilient?

Comment Re:Awe-inspiring next generation technology... (Score 1) 383

Regarding your point 1), you must be an aeronautical engineer (and a clairvoyant one, too) to claim that "the intakes required to decelerate incoming air to subsonic will either be too heavy, or impossible, or not distribute airflow evenly enough, etc etc."

You know that real experts (and not "experts" like you) once claimed that breaking the sound barrier is impossible in principle?

Comment Credit cards (Score 1) 449

W3K adds "You can use your Google account to store an unlimited number of credit cards and addresses. The service allows you to track all your orders and shipping in one place,"


I store all my credit cards in my wallet, thank you very much!

Comment Re:Theyre patent is pretty complete (Score 3, Interesting) 504

I've read the patent and from what little I know of Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive from Wikipedia it does seem related.

Regenerative braking is a red herring. What's special about Toyota's HSD on Prius is the drivetrain, and that's exactly what they're talking about in the patent.

The caveat - the patent was filed in 1991, don't patents expire after 14 years?
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