Panel 2, Saturday, June 26, 2pm EDT — The Real Science Behind Climate Change: Why the World Needs Seven More Terawatts of Energy
Megan Dobrodt, President, Schiller Institute USA: “Why the Universe Needs More People”
Dr. Kelvin Kemm, (South Africa), nuclear physicist, former Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa
Prof. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, Physicist (Fluid Mechanics), Emeritus Professor, Saarland University for Technology and Economics
Emanuel Höhener (Switzerland), Consulting Engineer in Energy Sector, Chairman of the Switzerland-based think tank Carnot-Cournot Network: “Swiss Vote ‘No’ to New CO₂ Law”
Paul Driessen (US), Senior Policy Advisor, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Prof. Nicola Scafetta (Italy), Department of Earth, Environmental and Resources Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Vincenzo Romanello, PhD (Italy), Nuclear Engineer, Research Center Rez, Founder, “Atoms for Peace,” Czech Republic
Prof. Augustinus Berkhout (Netherlands); member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau (2008), Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, the Netherlands and President of the Climate Intelligence Group, and Senior Member of the Dutch Academy of Engineering (AcTI)
John Shanahan (US): Civil Engineer, Editor, allaboutenergy.net, MSc. Civil Engineering
The molten salt nuclear battery promoted by Richard McPherson looks like a scam. In order to cut the cost of testing, It’s being tested with a solution of solid table salt (sodium chloride) dissolved in water, not molten salt with chloride or fluoride compounds of fission fuel dissolved in it, to cut the cost of testing. That will cut the cost of testing, but it will also make the results of the test irrelevant. Salt dissolves at room temperature, but a salt suitable for dissolving nuclear fission fuel does not dissolve the fuel and flow freely at any temperature below 500 C and probably higher, like 550 C. They need to show that they can handle corrosion with the actual fluid that they’re going to use at at least 600 C, so there is a difference between the outlet and inlet temperature. Showing that just any cheap fluid that doesn’t meet any of the other requirements will flow and transport heat without pumps is trivial. Nor is transporting heat without pumps important, if it meets the other requirements.
The molten salt nuclear battery promoted by Richard McPherson looks like a scam. In order to cut the cost of testing, It’s being tested with a solution of solid table salt (sodium chloride) dissolved in water, not molten salt with chloride or fluoride compounds of fission fuel dissolved in it, to cut the cost of testing. That will cut the cost of testing, but it will also make the results of the test irrelevant. Salt dissolves at room temperature, but a salt suitable for dissolving nuclear fission fuel does not dissolve the fuel and flow freely at any temperature below 500 C and probably higher, like 550 C. They need to show that they can handle corrosion with the actual fluid that they’re going to use at at least 600 C, so there is a difference between the outlet and inlet temperature. Showing that just any cheap fluid that doesn’t meet any of the other requirements will flow and transport heat without pumps is trivial. Nor is transporting heat without pumps important, if it meets the other requirements.