I was assuming that nuclear power plants would continue to be incredibly expensive to build and politically untenable. But I just got clued into thorium reactors.
The ones Obama just approved to be built are the standard water-cooled, fast-breeder Uranium-238 reactors that we all know and love, not the above hotness. But with Nobel Laureate Steven Chu as the head of the Department of Energy, I can’t write off an idea this good out of hand.
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Handmaid’s Tale
Middlesex
Interesting that Fermi and Wigner, two of the deepest theoreticians about the foundations of QM, were competing on these experimental projects. I had no idea Wigner worked on this stuff.