I'd bet against it. We are addicted to big project thinking. Here we've just
invested heavily in huge and massively expensive desalination projects when the
sensible thing to my POV would be to build a highly diffused network of small
and even domestic level purification plants and recycling facilities,
especially considering that the overwhelming proportion of water that we use
does not have to be drinkable or even clean. But there is no value in that for
government, construction and employment in the big ticket, banner headline,
short term approach that we seem to prefer.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com
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The TLR Compendium
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On 26/03/2014, at 1:38 AM, Scott Gomez wrote:
> Using shipboard/submarine nuclear propulsion plants would be a step towards
> the small, local power distribution and power plant design that really
> seems to make more and more sense the more I look at it. And, as mentioned
> by some others, there's the option of small thorium reactors.
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