Thrilled to see this! I knew that once these tech companies started to put their money to address their needs that SMRs would finally get the boost they needed. Clean carbon free 24/7 energy. Perfect till we have fusion!
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191 sats \ 3 replies \ @TheWildHustle 16 Oct
I'm seeing a bunch of headlines about the nuclear adoption,
seems like it came out of nowhere, maybe the dam has broken and common sense is making a come back.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 OP 16 Oct
So the Department of Energy has really been bankrolling these SMR projects but the issue was no one wanted to pay the up front cost. After all the first ones are going to be the most expensive.
Big tech has the hunger and the pockets to kick it off. Many of these designs are set up to where you can place them at retired coal or bat gas plants for the connection. They are also stupid safe and I forgot which company but one was literally making there reactor bomb proof I mean just wild innovation!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheWildHustle 16 Oct
We're about to see a crazy explosion of innovation in the next 20 years.
The world is going to look like the sovereign individual thesis on steroids.
Energy abundance
A digitally native censorship resistant hard money standard
Global free markets
Robotics
Decentralized communication protocols
etc.
Thinking about the future of tech is pretty much my wheelhouse.
I can't even fathom were all of this stuff takes us.
Its like the next stage of human evolution.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @libertas 16 Oct
Exactly how I've been feeling. I've occasionally been black-pilled in the short-term, but very, very white-pilled in the long-term. Even within the next 10 years I think we will see very positive changes.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @7e6e393a56 16 Oct
They really need to hurry, because China is well ahead in exploring the best clean energy resource, Helium-3 found on the Moon.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Cje95 OP 16 Oct
We have known that Helium-3 has been on the moon in significantly higher quantities than on Earth there whole thing was just going to the far side. There SMR's and "advanced" reactors like sodium-based ones are US designs from the 50s and 60s.
Once of those been there done that but now that it is economically viable again the US is dusting off everything once more.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @7e6e393a56 16 Oct
Correct, but massive amounts of Helium-3 are on the dark side of the moon. What is the only nation that has reached there so far, China.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 OP 16 Oct
Let’s be honest has China put people on the moon? Driven around on it? Played golf on it? No.
If Elon was asked to put people on the moon we could have them there in a year or two but instead he’s gunning for Mars. Starship isn’t perfect and complete yet but the sheer pace of its improvement should have every nation state shook
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @7e6e393a56 16 Oct
They did all this, but they didn't land on the dark side of the moon. If it were that easy they would have done it already. There are interests that go beyond the private sector, such as national sovereignty
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @LowK3y19 16 Oct
Time to hire Homer Simpson
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 16 Oct
There was a study done about the impact of the Simpsons on the nuclear industry and it is stunning to see the impact that the show had cause of Homer lol and the barriers of green goop.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @B_rian 16 Oct
The "No Nukes" boomer generation has finally lost its grip on energy policy. 
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