If you want to improve the output of solar energy systems, why not also run them at night? That's the question researchers in Qatar and Jordan addressed as they successfully devised a system that promises to more than double energy output of current solar power stations.
  • @CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    -2•1 year ago

    The technologies on which these reactor designs are based have been demonstrated previously. The specific designs are in progress and well on their way. AGR, EBR-II, and MSRE are examples.

      • NacktmullEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        From how they argue, I get the impression that most of them are victims of astroturfing campaigns by the nuclear lobby tbh. The nuclear industry hates the idea to become redundant because of renewables, so they spread lies about being the solution to climate change. Like they ever gave any shits about the ecosystem, lol.

          • NacktmullEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            Maybe those are the ones running the astroturfing campaigns?

              • NacktmullEnglish
                2•1 year ago

                More or less directly for the nuclear lobby I would assume. Or did I somehow misinterpret your question?

                  • NacktmullEnglish
                    1•1 year ago

                    It is not unprofitable for the corporations who run the plants but only for society as a whole. You have to consider the state funding for research and development, subsidies for construction and operation of power plants, plus the fact that the state runs and pays for the final storage facilities for nuclear waste. All those billions of taxpayer money getting systematically redistributed to the nuclear industry to offset the real expenses of nuklear power, makes it in fact an extremely profitable business. Think about it, otherwise there would never have been a nuclear industry in the first place, at least in western/capitalist economies.