Tom Blees, President of Science Council for Global initiatives:Bill Gates’ Terrapower is teamed with GE-Hitachi to build a sodium-cooled fast reactor by the mid-to-late 2020s. Thorcon’s plan has been to launch a four-year project, at the end of which their molten salt modular reactor will have been built and tested and the first power ship will be then expeditiously constructed.
Presently, nuclear power provides about 10% of the world’s electricity, but only about 4% of the world’s total energy demand. We can definitely scale it up, and quickly to produce all the electricity we need
The SCGI website states about man-made climate change: If global temperatures on our planet continue to go up, ferocious super-storms could become more frequent and sea levels could rise several meters over the next century, drowning coastal cities along the way. That’s the ominous warning put forth .. .. .. by former top NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen and 18 co-authors, which was published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics.
