You're showing that you're out of your depth, or willfully ignorant. I'm guessing both. No form of energy production is without government support and subsidy. None.
d00d, my grandfather was a nuclear chemist at ORNL from '48 to '77, and worked on the MSR experiment. I may not be as knowledgable as my grandfather was but I do know about the subject.
You can't have pristine landscapes, a non-petrol economy AND several kilowatts of electric power at your fingertips, to be switched on whenever you come home. We here in Europe are making choices. We know we have to. So will you, so will you.
Mining is not an issue. We're already throwing thorium away from current heavy metal mining and from coal tailings.
Let me repeat that: we're currently throwing away fuel. No additional mining effort needs to be done to have all of the thorium we need.
Second, nuclear is orders of magnitude more efficient than solar and wind. Solar and wind efficiencies are generally based on capacity, and NOT on actual output. The actual output from solar and wind installations are far lower than their capacity because the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine.
The LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) is a much more promising technology. For starters it's already been done, decades ago at Oak Ridge. It only needs to be commercialized. Also it lacks the hard gamma problems inherent in fusion.
Jet engines (theoretically) allow large metal objects formed into a lifting body to fly though the air at great velocities. This causes them to accumulate great momentum. This is bad news for family and friends waiting on the runway for the aircraft to arrive, as this momentum will cause the aircraft to run into them and kill them.
And, translated to another bodily function: "The fact is that fecal matter is not a pollutant. Feces are excreted at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle."
Meltdown? A LFTR runs with the fuel in a molten state. That's why they call it a MOLTEN salt reactor. So maybe you were trying to be cute, but it was cute and ignorant.
Not sure what the poster means by "fancy" when referring to the liquid flouride thorium reactor. It may be a novel concept to many folks, but if anything it's simpler compared to a light water or pressurized water reactor design. (Or any other solid fuel design, for that matter.)
It looks like the Ninth Circuit is hostile to religion and faith.
They are certainly hostile to the state establishing a particular religion and/or faith. That hostility happens to be codified in the first amendment to the constitution.
Right. Astroturfing with a four digit userid. Believe it or not there are genuine grassroots groups in the world, even for things like nuclear energy. The thorium energy group is one of them.
They know that they'll have plenty of radioactive material with which to fuel deep space craft due to their development of liquid fluoride thorium reactors. (That and they'll have limitless electricity as a cool byproduct...) See energyfromthorium.com Currently China is the only state actively pursuing LFTR development, though it was invented in America at the Oak Ridge National Lab.
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You're showing that you're out of your depth, or willfully ignorant. I'm guessing both. No form of energy production is without government support and subsidy. None.
d00d, my grandfather was a nuclear chemist at ORNL from '48 to '77, and worked on the MSR experiment. I may not be as knowledgable as my grandfather was but I do know about the subject.
Current nuclear is cost competitive. It is not science fiction. Please educate yourself.
The reality is that the day of cheap energy in the form of BTUs are over.
Simply untrue.
Nuclear.
You can't have pristine landscapes, a non-petrol economy AND several kilowatts of electric power at your fingertips, to be switched on whenever you come home. We here in Europe are making choices. We know we have to. So will you, so will you.
Of course you can have all of those things.
Nuclear.
As opposed to fusion, which doesn't even work yet.
Mining is not an issue. We're already throwing thorium away from current heavy metal mining and from coal tailings.
Let me repeat that: we're currently throwing away fuel. No additional mining effort needs to be done to have all of the thorium we need.
Second, nuclear is orders of magnitude more efficient than solar and wind. Solar and wind efficiencies are generally based on capacity, and NOT on actual output. The actual output from solar and wind installations are far lower than their capacity because the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine.
The LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) is a much more promising technology. For starters it's already been done, decades ago at Oak Ridge. It only needs to be commercialized. Also it lacks the hard gamma problems inherent in fusion.
See energyfromthorium.com
I know. It's a shame we don't have the freedom in our society to harass people to death. Really. A damn shame.
Jet engines (theoretically) allow large metal objects formed into a lifting body to fly though the air at great velocities. This causes them to accumulate great momentum. This is bad news for family and friends waiting on the runway for the aircraft to arrive, as this momentum will cause the aircraft to run into them and kill them.
And, translated to another bodily function: "The fact is that fecal matter is not a pollutant. Feces are excreted at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle."
Speaks for itself.
There's already uranium in seawater, from entirely natural sources, so your fish argument is silly.
Meltdown? A LFTR runs with the fuel in a molten state. That's why they call it a MOLTEN salt reactor. So maybe you were trying to be cute, but it was cute and ignorant.
Not sure what the poster means by "fancy" when referring to the liquid flouride thorium reactor. It may be a novel concept to many folks, but if anything it's simpler compared to a light water or pressurized water reactor design. (Or any other solid fuel design, for that matter.)
He's just refactoring.
Good news on the generation efficiency thing...
Considering the surface temperature is 460C, sure.
You imply that human selection is not natural. Why?
Hate to break this to you, but SkyNet will run on multiple VMs.
Nice try, though.
Anything that affects how we interact, especially in large groups, will affect contagion.
What's the central social order of religion?
Congregation.
They are certainly hostile to the state establishing a particular religion and/or faith. That hostility happens to be codified in the first amendment to the constitution.
Not to mention that in some parts of India the method to mine thorium consists of:
1) get shovel
2) start shoveling
Right. Astroturfing with a four digit userid. Believe it or not there are genuine grassroots groups in the world, even for things like nuclear energy. The thorium energy group is one of them.
They know that they'll have plenty of radioactive material with which to fuel deep space craft due to their development of liquid fluoride thorium reactors. (That and they'll have limitless electricity as a cool byproduct...) See energyfromthorium.com Currently China is the only state actively pursuing LFTR development, though it was invented in America at the Oak Ridge National Lab.
...edit for basic grammar?