The World NEEDS This Clean and Cheap Energy | Robert Zubrin
Energy demand is set to skyrocket-in the US and around the globe. What if we could tap an energy source that is clean, abundant, and cheap? We could if regulators would get out of the way.
Aerospace and nuclear engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin highlights how oppressive regulation blocks nuclear projects without improving safety. You will hear about the exciting progress scientists are making with fusion and small modular reactors. We also cover how the US is ceding lucrative global nuclear markets to China.
Dr. Zubrin is the author of The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future. Learn more here:
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Time stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
03:08 - The way past fossil fuel pollution
06:43 - How the US gave up its nuclear edge
12:09 - Nuclear waste solutions
17:00 - Political obstacles to nuclear
21:55 - How the US cedes nuclear energy markets to China
33:39 - Nuclear safety concerns
38:35 - The holy grail of nuclear
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I am a former reactor operator and I have a degree. I worked at FFTF in the early 80s before dirt-bag Jimmy Carter shut it down. We were well on the way to being able to burn nuclear waste (and make electricity in the process). Storing waste in the ground is asinine. Only a very small percentage of the spent fuel has been used. On a different note, not only can unused heat can be used to make fresh water, the unused radiation can be used to make hydrogen (a wonderful clean fuel). GE was working on the engineering until they decided that the NRC was full of brain dead buffoons and it would not be cost effective to get the mod approved. I agree that the federal government IS the problem.!!!!!!!
@MauldinEconomicsYouTube
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for the first hand insight!
Great information. Thank you
Fusion relies on tritium or helium-3. Those depend on fission reactors. So fusion can never replace fission for power.
If the current waste area was maintained and all of the waste was the fuel for TH reacters. The TH waste could replace the other waste for many, many years without needing a larger waste area.
Great discussion. I wish Robert had discussed thorium fuel cycle reactors.
@aliendroneservices6621
2 ай бұрын
The thorium "movement" is a branch of the anti-nuclear industry.
Is the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore far enough along such that a fusion weapon can be triggered without a fission sparkplug?
Th reactor eats waist from other uranium reacters.
Wasn't Jimmy Carter a nuclear sub commander?
@aliendroneservices6621
2 ай бұрын
Urban legend, debunked continuously for the past half century.
Cheap energy will put America out of business. That is the future for the USA.
No! NO! NOOOOOOOO!
Any hard evidence to back up your assertion that pro-nuclear Germans encouraged the Russian pipeline destruction? First time I've heard that point made. Your analysis is persuasive, aside from what comes across as partisan...
Clean and cheap? Let's talk about waste. Almost a trillion dollars is not cheap.
@aliendroneservices6621
2 ай бұрын
Research *_Deep Isolation._*