Read Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom from Wired magazine to learn about new pebble bed reactors currently under development in China.
Those of a more technical bent can read about Pebble Bed Reactors at Wikipedia.
For those of you who like pictures, here is a diagram of a PBR (via euronuclear.org)
And a closeup of one of the pebbles
For those who chant “No Blood for Oil”, what would you have in its place? Wood? Whale Oil? Hemp-based biomass?
This is cool folks. Of course, all of this pre-supposes a world that doesn’t have nuts running around wanting to build dirty bombs.
Oh, BTW. I like the “Money for Oil”. You know, that just might be crazy enough to work!
Complete agreement with you on subsidies, loans and big business bailouts. It sure looks like several of the large airlines need to go under, given the competition presented by low cost “regional” airlines. Continuing to “bail” them out only sets up the playing field against those businesses that are successful. “Bail” them out sure sounds a lot better than subsidize, doesn’t it?
Of course, remember the golden rule. Those that got the gold, makes the rules.
Tis true, tis true, tis pity, tis true.
>> For those who chant “No Blood for Oil”, what would you have in its place?
Maybe the alternative could be Money for Oil?
Whatever country holds the large oil reserves will use what they can and sell the rest. If they choose not to sell to us, we can buy from the folks they do choose to sell to.
What I cannot understand is why conservatives are willing to trust the free market to provide jobs, healthcare, higher education, environmental cleanup, etc.
However, when it comes to corporate needs like government contracts, subsidies, federally backed loans and big business bailouts…suddenly Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand of the market’ just won’t get it done.
Our airlines sure didn’t seem to be satisfied to simply ‘muddle along with Capitalism’.