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2019-07-15: The Quantum Internet

  • 11:38: austin holbrook says we need to do a better job of breaking the common misconception that nuclear power plants can explode like Atom bombs.

2019-07-01: Thorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy

  • 00:00: ... too cheap to meter That was the promise of nuclear power in the 1950s at least according to Luis Strauss chairman of the Atomic ...
  • 00:33: ... products of coal burning But the most compelling attraction is that nuclear power doesn't directly produce carbon emissions In fact nuclear power may be ...
  • 02:49: ... the weaponizable U-233 completely inaccessible without enormous effort Nuclear power is a possible solution to our dire energy and climate challenges The ...

2018-08-01: How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?

  • 01:05: ... energy it pumps out equivalent to a few hundred quadrillion nuclear power stations, provide essentially, all of the energy to sustain Earth's ...

2017-01-11: The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?

  • 04:59: ... levitate a good sized human, so the power output of a typical commercial nuclear power plant or the power consumption of a time traveling ...

2016-09-14: Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination

  • 11:57: But there are several solutions, and safer nuclear power-- maybe thorium-- could be an answer.

2015-10-15: 5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel

  • 06:30: 10% light speed is pretty reasonable with modern materials like a carbon web sail driven by a microwave beam running on a single nuclear power plant.
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