We can use the waste in what are called molten sodium nuclear power plants. We have enough waste to power the entire country for seven hundred years. We should be concentrating on those.
Where does this waste sodium come from?
Thereâs nothing technically challenging about it. All the elements are used every day around the world. All we have to do is increase the number of stations.
Itâs attainable. It would require a lot of work but the outcome would be extremely sustainable and effective.
I like that idea better! But in general it is tricky to find spots that canât be effected by unforseeable events like natural disasters, that is the part I get hung up on. And itâs hard to deal with that.
Itâs a pipe dream at best and we both know it. Where on earth would you even be able to acquire the necessary land for all the reservoirs? It takes a minimum of 10-25 years to get approval for even one new reservoir and none can be built on any blue line stream.
It would take literally tens of thousands of these stations to even begin to replace coal much less gas.
Where do you get that we would need tens of thousands of these types of stations?
Still stuck on permitting processes.
Massive DC storage batteries are just that- massive. Even if they were the lead acid type, think of the ecological destruction, and the sheer amounts of raw mineral resources that would be required. Those two thousand pound lead acid cell batteries would need to be replaced ever couple years. Very few batteries last more than a few years.
Lithium Ion batteries is a dead horse, we would barely be able to sustain the supply of car batteries, much less the tons of materials needed to support storage for the worldâs electrical grid requirements. Unless you think the US would selfishly use up all the lithium for its own uses.
Giant containers of compressed air, and other electric mechanical ideas looks interesting, but none have been attempted on any type of large scale operation.
And as you said, ideas like these, or hydrogen fuel cells, are all massively expensive.
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What is the generating capacity of one of these stations, constant generating that is.
Iâm genuinely curious.
Pump storage hydroelectricity already exists at grid scale installations and has for decades.
Itâs certainly the cleanest, as long as we can find a way to either safely store or find a way to reuse the nuclear waste.
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And theyâve never been shown to be remotely feasible on such a scale.
If you donât know that, why were you claiming to know how many it would take?
Because I know the current capacity being produced with coal.
How would you know?
I think you need a break 
Great. So you know the numerator but you donât know the denominator. That doesnât help you get the solution, does it.
Which is why you made one up.
Nothing like you are proposing exists on a commercial scale.
Standard hydroelectric plants rely on river/lake flows and work in one direction only.
