RE: Will Nuclear Waste Disappear?
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Hard to argue with a premise of government intervention screwing things up. I remember all the controversy about the plan to ship nuclear waste by rail to be buried in the mountains (in Nevada maybe?). Nobody trusted the government to not fuck it up.
With net power consumption, who knows. Maybe the free H+ generated can be used somehow to recapture a portion of that energy.
This is firmly in fantasyland at the moment though as just a hypothesis along with all that revolutionary battery technology that is just around the corner.
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I'm wondering when we'll see a news article about a company that buys nuclear waste (alpha emitters) so they can capture the helium and sell it. Supposedly there's a helium shortage, right? I'm sure there's not enough emitted to be viable for current industry, but still. If there really is a shortage, they can corner the market now.
I hadn't heard that there was a helium shortage.