Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Why 2016 Could Be a Turning Point the Energy Revolution" video.

  1. LFTR and especially the ultimate tokamak deuterium-tritium using lithium breeding walls like Iter and Wendelstein 7-x. China started their 10 year project for an operational LFTR plant. Wendelstein 7-x is already in its plasma experimental phase. And Iter will be online starting its experiments by about 2020. Both of those nuclear capacities have enough energy density in such a small volume of fuel, the abundance of which dwarfs that of any fossil fuels. The reason they're saying there's a bunch of sources is because they're not thinking too far ahead, other than what has already started to grow: natural gas, wind, and solar. Problem with gas is it's still a fossil fuel. Wind and solar contribute very small to the amount of material needed to make them and maintain them; they're not carbon neutral in their life cycle. They simply don't produce enough output compared to their input. It's just while they're finally producing some output, that output isn't emitting CO2. Until they breakdown. Or have to be refurbished or replaced. Ultimately, nuclear methods using thorium and especially deuterium will be the next primary fuel source.
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  2. I think its funny, we have over a million deaths a year due to car accidents. But a few people die of terrorism, we have to pump hundreds of billions more into defense spending, and perhaps go to war costing trillions. We humans are so mentally deficient, it's amazing MAD hasn't already happened and wiped us all out.
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  3. Fusion is nuclear. What you mean is Fission LFTR (thorium) and especially fusion tokamak designed fusion plants; better safer, non-weapon forming nuclear is rapidly advancing. And it has the energy density to power the world for several tens of thousands of years.
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  4. Mike, China has undergone a 10 year program starting in 2014 to develop an operational LFTR plant.
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  5. You can only place so man dams.
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  6. China under took a 10 year program starting in 2014 to do much safer and much less nuclear waste (in fact they can burn the waste instead of store it) thorium plants LFTR. Deuterium fusion plant research is advancing: Wendelstein 7-X is already in experimental phase. Iter will be begin its experiments by 2020. Won't necessarily be soon. LFTR perhaps by 2024. And Fusion tokamak designs 10 years later by 2034. Those truly have energy density that out performs fossil fuels by orders of magnitude; and is orders of magnitude more abundant.
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  7. A plant was about to be built in Idaho, by a Japanese company. But it went under, half finished plant still sits there. The price crash was contributed by Chinese government dumping loads of cash in their businesses to dump solar panels on the market. Much like the Chinese government and a few other countries have done with many manufacturing; they're able to sell at a loss. China and other countries like that are more concerned at giving any job, even shitty jobs to their peasants, and pricing out any capacity from any other country. Low wage peasants and can sell at a loss... it's dumping. Also, there was a slight decline in demand for some solar recently that hasn't helped. Solar panels today are still not all that great, and can only be used for so much energy production.
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