Rediscovering British Progress
Take Base Power Company. What’s the Why Now for Base?
There are many, and that’s the point.
Growing renewable generation and electrification of demand has destabilized the grid. Batteries have gotten much cheaper. Engineers have gotten better at distributed systems software. Consumer software keeps getting better. Digital customer acquisition is play
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The momentum for nuclear power goes beyond what’s happening in Ukraine.
Bessemer Venture Partners • Investing in a world powered by nuclear fission
The main problem fusion will still have to solve, as with nuclear fission, is how to drive down the cost by mass production of the reactors, with the ability to redesign from experience along the way so as to learn cost-cutting lessons.
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
criteria to consider technologies against. For energy, mine are simple. They have to deliver close to zero CO2 emissions, they should be as safe as we can afford, they should be able to be rolled out at scale quickly, and they should be considered in a systems context. The latter means we should consider factors like our quality of life, our geopol
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Because no one was going to let us build experimental reactors in the real world, we set up a lab of supercomputers in Bellevue, Washington, where the team runs digital simulations of different reactor designs.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Those key issues involve substantial solutions to cost material improvements in safety and ongoing maintenance and safe storage. N ext generation nuclear technology, as led by small modular reactors smrs are nuclear fission reactors that are now being designed to take the scale of nuclear plants down significantly and enable innovative features lik... See more