Why can't we harvest the energy from nuclear reactors in

>>8905235
We can, that's just the simplest method.

>>8905235
The main byproducts of uranium fission by energy are heat and neutrons. Neutrons aren't charged, and therefore you can't use them to make electricity, so you're best off just turning their energy into heat as well.

Now you have a hot lump of metal. How do you get electricity? Well, either some kind of heat engine or thermoelectrics. Look those up, and you will see why steam turbines is the best choice.

>>8905338
Supercritical CO2 Brayton cycles may become a thing, but they're still experimental and/or not as good as conventional steam cycles. Of course, from a high level, it's practically the same thing: Heat a liquid to spin a magnet in a coil of wire to produce an electric current.

>>8905235
Steam turbines are super efficient tho.

>using nuclear materials
>not using coal, gods greatest gift to white america

>>8905488
Coal is too expensive for too little energy, using plants that are falling apart and is competing with newer technologies that are lowering in price. And that's ignoring the climate change issue. Coals reign is over.

>>8905488
I think you mean natural gas you dumb bitch.

Fracking has allowed us to literally break the power of OPEC.

>>8905513
>Coals reign is over.
Only if the environmentalists can pull their heads out of their dogmatic asses and embrace nuclear.

you can do that with fusion of aneutronic fuels since they produce both heat and charged particles

>>8905235
What about solar?