Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Renewable Energy is The Scam We All Fell For" video.

  1. Fast spectrum reactors like Moltex and Elysium do not need to reprocess their fuel. PWR reactors can extract less than 5% of their energy. The unused 95% explains why why the waste fuel has a 30,000 years half life. Every year of power generated by a PWR leaves another 24 years sitting in its waste fuel. Moltex are building a plant in Canada to be online before 2030. It will not use an ounce of new fuel and being such a simple design is not a large sized plant. Costs are low er than natural gas.
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  2. Look at Ian Scott's https://www.moltexenergy.com They are building a plant in Canada which will burn the waste fuel removed from the PWR next door. Their next design will burn uranium because we have more than enough. Thorium is great but it's well outside anything the nuclear regulators have allowed to date so progress will be slow. Not because it's dangerous but because there are no safety protocols. The issues are entirely regulatory. Moltex avoids the big issues with molten salts by designing out everything they can which needs regulatory oversight. Fuel salt is held in vented fuel tubes no fuel pumping or internal pressure. The core is fast spectrum so no carbon moderator and gives full burnup of the long life actinides.
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  3. Moltex and Elysium have small modular nuclear reactors that will burn waste nuclear fuel. That “waste” fuel retains 95% of its energy. At least 24 times as much power is sitting in the waste fuel ponds than was ever delivered as useful power. A 1200 MW PWR reactor has enough used fuel to feed a Moltex for 600 years. Or more usefully 10 same size reactors for 60 years. Moltex and Elysium reactors are small and intrinsically safe. have been fully costed as cheaper than natural gas powered plant. Moltex is building one in Canada right now.
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  4. Anything which is idle for 80% of the time and only works when "it" feels like it cannot be economically viable. Wind power and solar have their place but regardless of what Greta says, they cannot deliver reliable base load power. They need the nasty fossil plants to fill the gaps. More importantly, load following means operating wastefully so the fuel burn goes up.
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