Thorium Reactors
Colin Brown comments on my recent piece Attempting To View Renewable Energy Intelligently: “Great to see that you now have thorium reactors in the mix.”
Anyone who rules out all types of nuclear — now and forever — simply because of the issues associated with the fission of uranium is a bigoted fool. That type of thinking is no better than those who reject modern medicine because its past practices included blood-letting and leaches. Having said this, we’re a very long way, in terms of both dollars and time, from a safe and practical approach to thorium.
LFTR will power the majority of future civilization, lest we fall into the trap of fossil fueled depletion into an overheated biosphere.
There is no reason for it to be more expensive than renewables AND their storage. And, obviously, it is NOT like conventional nuclear. Thus, there is no reason for it to take “decades” to develop when it has already been proven in mere years… decades ago!
As for the Moon, its probably mapped to see the age (and the make up) since thorium has a half life of some 14 billion years (hardly radioactive at all). But it would be cool if there was an international consortium like the space station, to put a moon base, powered by LFTR there (but it would suck if it took that long to “prove it” for use here on Earth)!
Watch this space.http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/breakout-thorium-idINL4N0FE21U20131220. Also interesting is.https://www.solveforx.com/moonshots/aneutronic-fusion
Yep, if we don’t do LFTR, China will do it (anyways).
I just heard about aneutronic a few weeks ago. Hope it works, but the green aliens (of limitation) that have already descended on the US will probably find a “fear” about that, too.