All fun engineering problems for us to solve IMO.
We already solved them. Nuclear power. But that's a NIMBY's bad dream.
I agree - Thorium reactors are the way to go. I wouldn't mind having one in my basement, self SCRAMing.
A simple RTG could probably provide a household's energy use over a stabilized demand curve.
Or simply use coal and instead of spending money on renewables, use the funds to scrub coal completely. The entire exhaust can be broken down to the elements and maybe even sold for another application.
This is why they always measure emissions in CO2 nowadays, because they know CO2 will always be a harmless emission and they never use the word pollution anymore.
Coal is always going to have things that aren't useful in it and have to be stored or handled. But yes, coal is one of the best bang for the buck power generation materials we have.
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