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Friday, June 10, 2011

Why Is Renewable Energy So Expensive, While Molten Salt Reactors will be So Cheap?

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:02 AM PDT
Sometimes dull stories have interesting endings. An examination of materials inputs for wind generation systems and Solar PV generation is offered and then compaired to with material inputs for the Advanced High Temperature Reactor. This study reveals that the AHTR, a near relative of the Molten Salt Reactor, offers material input advantages. MSRs can potentially offer the same material input advantages over renewables, and thus may generate electricity at very competitive costs.

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