Nuclear power... from water!

Here’s the fundamental thing about nuclear power:

1. Atoms contain energy.
2. If we extract that energy, we can use it for other purposes. After all, e=mc² . The bomb on Hiroshima, for an example, required only 0,6g of uranium.
3. The process of extracting that energy involves, naturally, a certain expenditure of energy.
4. So, the key, and current challenge, lies in developing ever better processes that free up more energy than they require.

People tend to think that the reason we use uranium and plutonium is because they’re highly energetic. That’s not the reason. It’s because of their “radioactive” tendencies.

It’s easier to extract energy from uranium than from, say, water. Right now, every attempt we make to try and release the energy contained in water, for an example, fails: because we end up using more energy than the energy we release.

What if one day we’re able to easily extract energy from water?

Well, at that point, we’ll be able to supply all the energy that a city the size of London requires for an entire week from a single glass of water.

True story.

Imagine a world like that :)