The Energy of the Future

>>130366280
Not so fast
India has a very advance thorium Reactor program but even they admit it will take atleast 4 or 5 decades before Thorium-Based Reactors become mainstream.

Their are still alot of technical complication that needs to be sorted out.

>>130366280
Because the closest we came to developing a viable reactor design was the MSRE device at Oak Ridge back in the 60s, and all they managed to do with that was demonstrate that molten salt reactors were viable, they never got as far as developing a fully-working LFT device. There's still a shitload of engineering and mechanical issues to be worked out - same reason we don't have fusion reactors.

We should be building more Uranium plants in the meantime.

>>130366280
Kek, any isotope will work. If there's land, we have energy

>>130366280
Because natural gas and petroleum are still quite abundant
Every time someone comes up with a "sky is falling" assessment of global oil reserves, we magically find a new untapped pool of oil

The costs for infrastructure are cheaper than building up alt energy tech with no precedent for widespread distribution
The market will adopt alt energy when it becomes advantageous

As an aside, forcing increased regulations to promote alt energy is probably the most braindead, counterintuitive shit i've ever heard