Comments by "Greg Bailey" (@gregbailey45) on "Engineering with Rosie" channel.

  1. Did I miss it, or was lifetime not mentioned? Presumably, the fissile material is in the form of solid rods, and these require regular replacement in a 'normal' reactor, something like every couple of years or less. I do not recall hearing anything about fuel lifetime or replacement intervals. This must have a big impact on running cost and/or lifetime cost of thus type of reactor system, surely?
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  2. Just buy Ambri's liquid metal batteries. Problem solved.
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  3.  @merchantoo  hmm, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you had to take the excess carbon OUT OF pig-iron to make it into steel!
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  4. Green ammonia could easily be made from green hydrogen. Not sure why you say it's difficult.
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  5. Interestingly, an Australian start-up, Hazer Group, has developed the "Hazer Process" which converts bio-methane into green hydrogen and industrial grade graphite which is ideally suited to battery production. https://arena.gov.au/projects/the-hazer-process-commercial-demonstration-plant/#:~:text=The%20Hazer%20Process%20is%20a,the%20feedstock%20as%20solid%20graphite.
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  6. This looks VERY promising technology!
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  7. As we transition ro renewable energy generation, distributed battery storage will reduce the strain on grids and enable the use of the superabundance of renewables coming our way.
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