ROEI and Lunacy of Solar Highways & Human Hamsterwheels - TR2016c 1h58m11s26f
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 23/03/2017

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Impractical energy solutions are given undue attention by media. Considerations like Return on Energy Invested [ROEI], Energy Density and Energy Reliability are absent from the cable-news energy conversation.

How do our choices stack up? Corn Ethanol is singled out as a particularly bad energy choice, with even Al Gore admitting corn ethanol subsidies were a mistake. Corn Ethanol barely produces more energy than is required to create it.

Molten Salt Reactors offer a very appealing Return On Energy Investment. The very first Molten Salt Reactor was designed to power an airplane, and so could not depend on 1-Earth gravity. Such considerations would also be needed for any MSR to power NASA missions.

That is why NASA spent $10,000 to digitize Molten Salt Reactor research documents. Given that multiple startups have leveraged those documents to launch modern-day Molten Salt Reactor energy solutions, that $10,000 might be the best bang-for-the-buck achieved by a government spend.

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