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What compelled me to register for a weekend Health Hackathon? Anyway, I could soon be up to my ears in it. A pubmed search on Health Hack...

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Terrapower - very clean nuclear energy?

Bill Gates chairs the board of directors for this new company:
http://www.terrapower.com/

It can burn all the depleted uranium at one waste site in Kentucky to power all the homes in the US for 700 years:
http://terrapower.com/pages/environment

I think they combine supercomputers with the wave vector energy grid to maximize energy production. No special relevance for eHealth, save for the "e". And that is why it is "awesome".

This type of energy source seems more appealing than a 250 mile wide solar panel belt around the moon one Japanese company has proposed. And here I was about to give up all hope on the future of humanity.



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