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electrocat1 says:
December 22, 2014 at 12:59 am (UTC 0)
God, why are the world’s governments so closed minded? They build weapons
and fight like little children. Why can’t we just advance for the sake of
wonder, and not war?
rjmprod says:
December 22, 2014 at 1:43 am (UTC 0)
Just another thing that makes China smarter than us! They can see the
obvious, we can’t! Isn’t that how Obama got into office?
Michael Rubacha says:
December 22, 2014 at 2:09 am (UTC 0)
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR): Energy for the Future?
jameseglavin4 says:
December 22, 2014 at 2:13 am (UTC 0)
I’m SO glad SciShow decided to cover this, but there are a few nagging
inaccuracies in the video (maybe just simplification for the sake of time).
The longest videos on a YT channel called Gordon McDowell are a much more
thorough and detailed resource on this topic, and anyone interested would
be able to understand them. I’m not trying to shill for Gordon but his
videos really got me excited and I went on to learn a lot more about it.
The world, not just the US or China, needs LFTR! I hope some of you inform
your govt. representatives and push them to create a LFTR project, wherever
you may live. Clean, safe power for everyone that’s cheaper than coal! And
it’s not a fusion/solar/water powered car fantasy – reactors like this one
have been made and have been technical and practical successes. Go learn
more! Thanks SciShow!
Dud Elmer says:
December 22, 2014 at 3:00 am (UTC 0)
Fails to say it ran for 5+ years with only 1 issue ( valve leak and it
sealed ITSELF)
Amir Rasheed says:
December 22, 2014 at 3:14 am (UTC 0)
Fails to say it ran for 5+ years with only 1 issue ( valve leak and it
sealed ITSELF)
HEMPPUBLISHINGCOM says:
December 22, 2014 at 4:01 am (UTC 0)
YES, BUT WHY NOT JUST GROW, HEMP, INSTEAD, AND REPLACE THE TREE INDUSTRY,
OIL INDUSTRY, THE FUEL INDUSTRY FOR VEHICLES, AND ALL NUCLEAR PLANTS, AND
COAL INDUSTRIES….. THE HIPPIE TERRORIST
galt57 says:
December 22, 2014 at 4:45 am (UTC 0)
It’s sad that the death of molten-salt reactor research can be traced back
to a rather daffy decision by Richard Nixon, who wanted to create nuclear
jobs in California rather than Tennessee.
SpazzyMcGee1337 says:
December 22, 2014 at 5:06 am (UTC 0)
If you watched this video and are now reading this post then you should
post a link to this video on your social media accounts. The future of
energy depends on it.
William Gregor says:
December 22, 2014 at 5:33 am (UTC 0)
One more thing. Technology and science keep advancing I saw a hover
skateboard the other day. “Back to the future” where I am going is I think
LFTR is safe for the next 100 years and does not leave us with a bunch of
radioactive stuff for centuries. In 100-200 years we maybe able to run our
cars on water, and generate the homes power needs with a small fuel cell at
no more cost than drilling a well for water is today. Inconvenient cost
but not a price that ruins a family.
Acheron River says:
December 22, 2014 at 5:48 am (UTC 0)
Hmm… What do I think about it.
I’m pretty sure we should have built this type of reactor on mass scales
back at the turn of the century. Hopefully we will have them by the time
sealab 2021 happens…
Philip Parkinson says:
December 22, 2014 at 6:25 am (UTC 0)
Anything that get’s us away from nuclear reactors is a good thing. Like
making peace profitable, or real solar efficiency.
StrategicGathering says:
December 22, 2014 at 6:41 am (UTC 0)
Thorium must be mined, and therefore is not environmentally friendly.
bost h says:
December 22, 2014 at 6:43 am (UTC 0)
Americans are idiots. I am ashamed
DANN Beelzeboss says:
December 22, 2014 at 6:58 am (UTC 0)
Being American, Im pretty sure we’ll just wait for China to build them. Its
kind of what we do.
leerman22 says:
December 22, 2014 at 7:02 am (UTC 0)
China really needs this to curve their coal habits. We use CANDU in Ontario
to ditch our coal plants. Those can also run on thorium like what India is
trying.
Jonathan Schattke says:
December 22, 2014 at 7:36 am (UTC 0)
I’m terribly sorry, you have made some mistakes.
1) Both Thorium and Uranium decay with gamma, beata and alpha particles; in
fact, the decay chain touted as making thorium based nuclear more
“proliferation resistant”, the U232 chain, has higher energy gammas in it
than in the U235 or U238 decay sequences.
2) The liquid fluoride salt is fuel, moderator (in some cases) and coolant.
while this makes the design safer in many ways (the high melting
temperature means low pressure for similar or better thermal efficiency;
the system can be quickly rendered subcritical and passive coolable by
channeling the salt into small containers), it does mean you have a primary
loop full of active fissionable compounds, and there will be some fission
(and thus high energy neutrons) everywhere that coolant loop goes, which
makes the business of primary core shielding much more interesting.
3) Thorium waste (U233) ALSO makes bombs – actually better bombs than U235,
and only slightly worse than Pu239.
Leo Pingol says:
December 22, 2014 at 7:48 am (UTC 0)
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR): Energy for the Future?
priit mölder says:
December 22, 2014 at 7:53 am (UTC 0)
I want a LFTR reactor to power my home and/or “Tony Stark style underground
garage workshop…thingy”!!!. I have done the research and determined the
cost: 10x less, than conventional reactors, maintaince is 25x cheaper+safer
and the fuel is almost 10.000 times cheaper/ubundant. So why havent we done
it yet? Simple: the “economic” elite would collapse under the drop of the
cost of energy! Sure enough, they have begun to “outlaw” the trafic of said
element, because OF the ease of which in can be used! Wonder why its so
difficult to trafic this element…because Uncle Sam and Ching Chong
Chinaman want to suck Habib-al Salamen dry of all the jummy OIL, which the
economy is based on! MO MANEEEEH, MOA MANEEEH!
sexyloser says:
December 22, 2014 at 8:25 am (UTC 0)
With abundant energy, comes solutions to a lot of the current problems
facing the world. Desalination and fresh water would be dirt cheap,
production of all goods and services including food and medicine would be
dirt cheap and the processing power of machines could be scaled up if
energy was abundant.
If there is one avenue of progress that we should take seriously as a
species, then its energy production.
followthefleet1 says:
December 22, 2014 at 9:08 am (UTC 0)
There’s also the IFR, the Integral Fast Reactor, which is 4th gen, nuclear,
but which has all the features of the LFTR. The IFR, unlike the LFTR, is a
proven technology developed in 1994 at Argonne. It has 300 years of
operational experience. The GEH, S-PRISM is poised for commercialization,
in the UK to burn their huge waste dump. I’m in favor of continued
research, and the construction of a LFTR prototype, but we do have one 4th
gen proven technology already…the IFR.
William Gregor says:
December 22, 2014 at 9:22 am (UTC 0)
Leadership thats what is needed. Someone like JFK to say we will build
LFTR not because it is easy but because it is hard and develops a world we
can be proud to leave to our children. Seems like stability is the primary
reason to go this way.
Aleksandr Podyachev says:
December 22, 2014 at 9:25 am (UTC 0)
everyone, please share the heck out of this video!
grumpystiltskin says:
December 22, 2014 at 9:40 am (UTC 0)
LFTR would cost about $1 / American to build the first plant. Definately
worth it. A LFTR plant is 50x cheaper than a Uranium plant, which is why
you don’t care about closing the uranium plants. Cleaning up the waste
from the uranium LWR plants gets a l ot cheaper too, because you can dump
it in the LFTR and it will get eaten up and be safe immediately and within
300 years be safe for disposal.
The fuel for the LFTR is over 100x cheaper, which is the real reason
industry wasn’t interested. Reactors are sold like razor/razorblades.
Only one fuel fits, so the plant is discounted. But LFTR eats a liquid
fuel made of a cheap as dirt commodity. How do you patent a rock? How do
you make money on a plant no more expensive than a typical fertilizer plant
if you cant even sell them fuel?
jackinthebox4934 says:
December 22, 2014 at 9:42 am (UTC 0)
What do I think? What the fuck are we doing?!! We have plenty of bombs and
nuclear subs as it is, why not make the fucking switch. Reduce, reuse,
recycle, Thorium has all of these! WHAT ARE WE DOING???
Viktor Calhoun says:
December 22, 2014 at 10:21 am (UTC 0)
He should have been drinking a PBR in stead.
Patrick Ellis says:
December 22, 2014 at 11:02 am (UTC 0)
he threw the can in the backseat
Billy Gibbons says:
December 22, 2014 at 11:37 am (UTC 0)
Do you know something, he may have thrown the can in the back seat after
all. The reason I think that is, if he’d have thrown it on the road as I
first thought, it would have made a noise a bit …er….like a can being
thrown on the road. The fact it didn’t, makes me think it landed on the
back seat. Oh, I’ll sleep better now. Billy Gibbons. Not the ZZTop one,
another one..
Дима М says:
December 22, 2014 at 12:10 pm (UTC 0)
класс!
Noemi Kovaz says:
December 22, 2014 at 12:44 pm (UTC 0)
disgusting
phizgp says:
December 22, 2014 at 1:19 pm (UTC 0)
It’s a 1950 Buick Special 51 Super convertible.
kirsikka69 says:
December 22, 2014 at 1:36 pm (UTC 0)
Yiiihaaa!!!! Cool!
Youaresorancid says:
December 22, 2014 at 2:05 pm (UTC 0)
That advert was cool – untill he chucked his can out the window. What a
muppet.
Nate Olson says:
December 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm (UTC 0)
Does anyone know who owns or who was the person who built this kustom ’50
Buick, and has it been in any magazines, or will it be in any magazines,
such as Rebel Rodz, Ol’ Skool Rodz and/or Car Kulture Deluxe.
Mikael Hostrup Thomsen says:
December 22, 2014 at 3:23 pm (UTC 0)
Cool!! 🙂 Maybe he threw it in the backseat?
captainpegs07 says:
December 22, 2014 at 3:52 pm (UTC 0)
every cliche in the book
IntertubeTr0ll says:
December 22, 2014 at 4:10 pm (UTC 0)
Promotes littering. And it’s a shit Ad.
ArmseligGeil says:
December 22, 2014 at 4:59 pm (UTC 0)
life is full of surprises, you should sit back and enjoy.
strandwolf says:
December 22, 2014 at 5:50 pm (UTC 0)
Ever read The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey? Sure…everyone has.
Abbey used to toss his beer cans out the window alongside the road just to
offend the tender-hearted hypocritical libs. Nice aluminum cans make good
spider hideouts. They’re only a visual blight, like graffiti. I know you’d
rather look at corporate billboards….
Nate Olson says:
December 22, 2014 at 6:32 pm (UTC 0)
Does anyone know, who built the ’50 Buick Kustom, that’s in this video?
Johnny Gravestone says:
December 22, 2014 at 7:24 pm (UTC 0)
whiskey can fuel a car! fuck PBR! hey! that rhyimes!!