The free-market will never attempt to solve energy shortages using proven technology like Nuclear Reactors because they can make more money with fossil fuels. why would they care about an unproven tech that is "50 years" and a trillion dollars away?
Sounds like Tesla Full Self Driving. Yes the marketeers are making more concrete bogus promises because buyers have otherwise gotten skeptical. It's still best imho to treat the announcements as meaningless and wait to see reactors actually producing continuous power.
Molten thorium fission on the other hand does seem potentially useful on a large scale in a foreseeable timeframe.
What timeframe do you foresee for that?
70 more years. Seeing as the tech already exists and we created a reactor about 70 years ago. Also thorium is only used to make plutonium.
The free-market will never attempt to solve energy shortages using proven technology like Nuclear Reactors because they can make more money with fossil fuels. why would they care about an unproven tech that is "50 years" and a trillion dollars away?