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Engineering360: "A federal boost for US clean energy tech"

12/23/2021 8:00 AM

Read Engineering360 article: A federal boost for US clean energy tech.

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Re: A federal boost for US clean energy tech

12/23/2021 11:24 PM

I think their priorities are in the wrong order. I would put nuclear first, because it likely will be the best long-term energy supply. Carbon capture perhaps should be last--what happens when the world market is flooded with the captured carbon? Hydrogen may be neat, but it takes energy to make it. When I was at Argonne, it was quickly noticed that helium would leak thru vinyl bags. Hydrogen is an even smaller molecule. Sealing it will be a real problem.

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Re: A federal boost for US clean energy tech

12/24/2021 5:09 AM

Storing nuclear spent rods for hundreds or thousands of years isn't clean energy.

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