David S:
You would have more credibility if you would quantify your assertions (how much is “Plenty”? Is that more or less than “a whole lot”?) and if you weren’t rooted in the 1960s. You have obviously not done your homework (even with the hints offered in this article). Today’s reactor designs are quite safe, but even better, thorium reactors offer several advantages:
1. Consume conventional nuclear waste.
2. Passive cooling is fail-safe.
3. Can be “right-sized” to supply neighborhoods.
Battery technology seems to be on the cusp of making the electric car practical. At that point we’re going to have increasing demand for electricity above our current level. Aside from specialty markets like aviation gasoline and jet fuel, the demand for fossil fuels will slowly dry up as the internal combustion powered cars and trucks wear out. Rather than synthetic fuels, we should be focusing on local power generation and battery technology.
