The Uranium – Hydrogen – Carbon Energy System of the Future

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Started by metmike - March 23, 2025, 4:31 p.m.

Extremely informative article written by a brilliant, well informed bloke from Australia!

David Archibald

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/23/the-uranium-hydrogen-carbon-energy-system-of-the-future/

Following is a lecture given on 13^th March at the Energy Exchange Australia convocation in Perth. It was a 20 minute slot.

Power prices didn’t go down though, they doubled instead. The blue line is Australia’s Consumer Price Index from 1980. The red line is the Power Prices Index. They used to track closely up to 2008 where they parted company. We are now paying twice as much for power as we should be. And this is for stuff that is going straight to landfill. A power price twice as high as it should be is the price of stupidity.

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By metmike - March 23, 2025, 4:53 p.m.

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The economics of plutonium breeder reactors are competitive with current coal-fired costs.

Adopting plutonium breeder reactors will unlock an even bigger energy resource. As well as breeding U238 to plutonium, thorium can be bred to U233.

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The four pillars of civilisation are diesel, plastics, steel and concrete. All those things need carbon if made with current technology. So, when the fossil fuels run out, where will the carbon come from? That will require plantation forests of eucalypts. This graph shows the square metres of eucalypt plantation required per capita for each pillar of civilisation. All up it is about 300 square metres or less than a small suburban block, and eminently doable.