To Max Green.

It's not the information that I have questions about. It's on whether the reactor will deliver what it's promised. Honestly it comes down to the idea that seeing is believing. I think what is offered by salt reactors is great and worth an investment of at least one to see how well it does. If it does well and measures up to all the information that's out there for it, then awesome. Great. Wonderful. If it doesn't deliver on all the qualities info-graphed without a reliable test reactor, but still delivers on some then that's still great, just not as great. For instance if the reactor can eat up nuclear waste, but the energy it produces takes much longer then the energy that is used up by the sourounding area, then that's not as great, but still is worth it in the long run of needing a solution to nuclear waste. In that case it'd be on par with other green energy ideas, as far as energy production, but still worth it with the solution to take nuclear waste from around the world. Think of it on a economic level, Australia being the first country that can safely and permanently dispose of nuclear waste. There's a large scale economic recovery in that equation

The reactor promises so much, can you blame a guy for being skeptical of if it can deliver everything it promises? But on the other hand it DOES promise so much, skeptism or not it's worth an investment to give it a chance.

Dear Max Green,

Thanks, that's much better. The denialists can only refute that explanation at the expense of admitting that they have a 50 cents brain in lieu of a $1 brain.

PS You are absolutely right about the cost of climate change which we are all beginning to see as a result of extreme droughts, firestorms, cyclones, etc. not to mention the extinction of other species from environmental degradation caused by human activity in general.

Personally, I'm pessimistic about fixing the problem wrought by 240 years of burning fossil fuels

To Belly.

I'm glad you like some of what I write (though honestly suprised by that statement). But with regards to global warming issues, I've gotten tired of the same story of making a one world dictatorship in order to get the whole world on board. That's really the only feesible way to do what the alarmists are asking for. Outside of that global warming is just shifting blame on those not following suit, instead of looking for solutions that doesn't require international teamwork.

I don't think China or India is going to get on board the global warming bandwagon any time soon. And the dead line for action is a consistently tiring "Now! Now! Now!" Panic frenzy. There's no reason to believe it, no credibility, and no active and practical solutions to put into place.

To Mr. O

Is this the best your education can muster. Trying to come up with hip insults to brand the people with the sence to say climate change industry is fishy beyond belief.

To Not Now Soon,

We know the physics works of breeding waste. We have over 400 reactor-years (breeders times years in operation) with Integral FAST Reactors. These are a bit different to Molten Salt Reactors in that they still use solid fuel. The nuclear 'waste' that must be turned into fuel lives in a blanket surrounding the reactor much like wet logs placed around a fire to dry out. We KNOW they work, and the Russians just built the BN-800 and could be upgrading to a BN-1200 MW next time.

But there was a trial Molten Salt Reactor back in the 1960's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor

See my blog for a photo of JFK touring the experimental MSR.
https://eclipsenow.wordpress.com/molten-salt-reactors/

Dear Not_Now.Soon,

As a scholar I seek the truth. You are not in that league.

You do not understand how the world works and I question the motive of your stance against acknowledging the reality that is AGW and it's consequences. That is, apart from the simple fact that you have a $1 brain.

Not Now soon, NEVER! but I get a kick out of your conspiracy theory for its sheer silliness
See Donald Trump [the bloke is insane] posted his head on Arnys body, on his twitter account.
He is a conspiracy within a conspiracy but you out do him with that
5 mm of rainn here last night, along with the one mm earlier in the week 6mm in two months
Went south [two hours drive] and return grass dead even on roadside, it usually does well from being cut and left , we are midst a climate crisis
Not a take over the world conspiracy