Bazz,
Not if you use some of the tidal flow to pump water into storage ponds to use between tides.

hmm, AlanB is now using "PKWH" units which in SI units would be Peta-Kelvin-Watt-Henries.

Ahh, Uh-huh, it's all making sense now! This is obviously the unit for some exotic temperature-power-inductance figure that results from some complicated calculations AlanB has done regarding his graphene road initiative for recharging EV's via magnetic inductive coupling while they drive along it. Evidently he's invented/produced this new composite graphene material that he can mass produce for next to no cost. And he's derived this you-beaut equation that relates this new material's super-conductivity's sensitivity to heat, the maximum electric power through-put it can sustain and its magnetic inductance when used to wirelessly transfer energy (this is where his PKWH units come into play). This equation unequivocally shows that his recharging road scheme is all perfectly feasible and will save the world from all sorts of vice once implemented in combination with his Thorium reactors.

And Oh boy, those Thorium reactors are amazing! For example, years ago when Alan started extolling the virtues of his reactors the projected energy cost was 0.02$/kWh* (if i remember rightly) and these days it's 0.01$/kWh. They're a goddamn inflation resistant economic miracle: that's a 50% decrease in cost due to his program of technological progress and continually improving efficiencies over the years- and this was achieved without anyone ever building one! See like I said, they're absolutely amazing- can't wait till someone forms a company to actually build one.

[*: Since AlanB writes any unit he feels to represent any quantity he wants I'll write "$" units for money the way I prefer- ie: suffix not prefix. :) ]

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Oh, by-the-way, AlanB I will "stay in your box where you do all your thinking", because the box where I do my thinking in is called "The Scientific Method And Its Results". I love being in this box so much that I hardly ever get of it- it basically forms the hard boundaries of what I think about and how I think about things. And it's a very, very big box full of all sorts of wonderful things to play with and think about. For example, in this box you will find glorious stuff like: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc. Perhaps one day you might jump into this box and think about/play with these things too? Since after you do that then you will no longer need display your complete ignorance of this box's contents in your posts.

"can't wait till someone forms a company to actually build one"

China was supposed to start testing a prototype in September last year.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor

I note in the comments from the article:

" Significantly, neither the historic ORNL MSRE reactor nor the proposed Kairos reactor use Thorium as fuel, which appears to be the chief breakthrough of China's MSR design. I suspect that China's MSR design may be less constrained by regulatory agencies than MSR designs from other nations, which are strictly forbidden from use of design features that might conceivably be exploited for weapons proliferation purposes.

The primary example of such a feature is continuous online chemical separation of the fertile isotope Pa233 as an intermediate by-product of breeding fertile Th232 into fissile U233 . The continuous online separation of Pa233 is said to be necessary in order to prevent accumulated Pa233 from absorbing so many free neutrons that the ongoing U233 fission chain reaction [presumably thermal] grinds to a halt while waiting for the Pa233 to beta-decay into fissile U233. [3].

If breeder-generated Pa233 were separated, diverted, and removed from the reactor, the eventual result would be ready-made weapons-grade U233. China may have a unique reactor security regimen that protects this material from clandestine diversion or they maysimply choose to ignore it. Or their technology may have an undisclosed feature that solves the Thorium breeding problem without creating a weapons proliferation problem."

"The Scientific Method And Its Results".
thinkabit,
Is that "Govt funding pit" in plain English ?

Fester,
Sounds a bit like burning Iron Bark wood in the boiler, great efficiency but it burns the firebars out quick, Stringy Bark and Box are much better.