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Terry Leigh Britton says:
February 7, 2015 at 12:54 pm (UTC 0)
*I arrived a little late to this Thorium party, but I’m here now!*
*This 2011 video and its accompanying playlist are loaded with new
knowledge and developments. Why is this taking so long?*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4&feature=share&list=PL098D071EE5755361
13minutestomidnight says:
February 7, 2015 at 1:17 pm (UTC 0)
Utterly brilliant. Not only the simplicity and pure genius of LFTR, but
this entire REMIX was really cleverly put together. Very witty and
succinct, encompassing all sides of the idea and addressing opposing
viewpoints very clearly based on statistical and evidence-based arguments.
I had no idea America had even DESIGNED a thorium reactor. And a
low-pressure system at that! Of course America designs something brilliant
and only the Chinese government figures out how to use it. Should have
guessed really…
In my country, “environmentalism” is basically an excuse for our government
to hit us over the head with counter-productive and inane policies, but I’m
surprised that in America where people really band together and care about
the environment that they would be so… stupid. Does anyone in Greenpeace
do their homework at all?? I went looking around and couldn’t find one
concise coherent argument against LFTR that WASN’T based on misinformation
or misunderstanding.
I still think Fusion is ultimately going to be the way to go for
space-based projects and expansion etc., but the technology still isn’t
advanced enough yet. In the meantime, LFTR is the best option I’ve read
about for safe, sustainable renewable energy sources.
wazza33racer says:
February 7, 2015 at 1:45 pm (UTC 0)
the typical “green” politician is only a new branding of communism. Their
idea of energy efficiency is for everyone to be a stalinist slave, living
on gruel in a dark hut and worshipping their statist saviours. Green groups
will never endorse or support Thorium, the greens want scarcity,control and
obedience………..just as their Bankster masters have ordained.
King Cheetah says:
February 7, 2015 at 2:18 pm (UTC 0)
if its so fucking perfect why arent we using it
yxooo says:
February 7, 2015 at 2:47 pm (UTC 0)
where is Elon Musk? most def he needs some cheap energy
Steve Dowe says:
February 7, 2015 at 3:21 pm (UTC 0)
*Safe nuclear energy? Achievable today.*
Energy consumption will, like the global population, simply and surely
grow. Renewable energy sources are good for domestic use, but for heavier
industry, the armed forces, space exploration and so on, more power is
needed.
*Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors* provide an opportunity to explore the
true energy potential of nuclear power, while at the same time offering
global social benefits like not depleting the Middle-East of its natural
resources, keeping the very few rich, powerful people … well, rich and
powerful, at the cost of a good quality of living for the many.
The West, of course, has a vested interest in controlling market demand of
the oil states. LFTRs have the potential to create a better future than
this.
20 minutes of this video is enough to educate.
http://youtu.be/P9M__yYbsZ4
If you are convinced, perhaps look at the change.org petition to allow the
construction of a new, test reactor in NY state.
https://www.change.org/p/to-nuclear-regulatory-commission-department-of-energy-to-grant-licenses-for-meltdown-proof-liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors-to-reduce-the-impact-of-climate-change-reduce-nuclear-waste-and-produce-leukemia-fighting-isotopes
#nuclearpower #futureenergy
Jo Kommentaah says:
February 7, 2015 at 3:54 pm (UTC 0)
OKay but if 100% of the energy is covered by it: What about the fucking
high radiation levels on earth? The radiation goes somewhere. How come
nobody think of that? Sure if its used 100% with no waste left it would
“only” contaminate while being used but if its being used all the time it
would be a constant exposure. Plus if its being used the energy consumption
would explode to 2-3 times the current level. cause it is so “clean”. . I
prefer wind and solar. wind works. we got it everywhere where I live: there
is wind 24/7 the power lines are already there etc… plus wind and solar
are not the only actually clean resources (yes solar requires good
recycling ). why go with something so dangerous and unsustainable as
nuclear power? The only way to keep that radiation from us would be using
a huge reactor in space and sending a laser beam to a fixed location on
earth. wasteful but not as radioactive…. well apart from extremely
dangerous.. Safe Nuclear energy is bullshit. it will never be possible.
radiation always goes somewhere. The genetic damage is something that lasts
and stacks its effect throughout the generations. on a long term its
dangers are enorm
Jim Speiser says:
February 7, 2015 at 4:19 pm (UTC 0)
Can anyone point me to a company or other equity interests that are
investing in this technology? A stock ticker symbol will do…
Arthur Yagudayev says:
February 7, 2015 at 4:29 pm (UTC 0)
The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor can not only prevent more man-made
carbon emissions form being emitted to eliminating nuclear waste by turning
nuclear waste into energy, eliminating the waste problem, if you want to
replace today’s fossil fuels with today’s nuclear technology, please sign
this petition.
http://www.change.org/p/to-nuclear-regulatory-commission-department-of-energy-to-grant-licenses-for-meltdown-proof-liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors-to-reduce-the-impact-of-climate-change-reduce-nuclear-waste-and-produce-leukemia-fighting-isotopes
UTC Zulu says:
February 7, 2015 at 4:31 pm (UTC 0)
I thought Sorensen was a well informed enthusiast for thorium after
viewing his presentations in shorter videos. Looking at this video to find
he is actually a doctor of nuclear engineering and physics explains a lot…
A WHOLE LOT. So now I am really intrigued and have the same question that
maybe a whole lot of other people have… Why are we not already using
thorium reactors?
Is everything about using thorium being told? Up until now, I have
seen a lot of these videos that present thorium as the answer for all our
energy needs with virtual no cons. There has to be some drawbacks or
technical challenges not being addressed as to why someone has not already
built one of these.
It is understandable that in the U.S. that money and special interests
can hamper the development of a thorium reactor (oil, coal, those that
support uranium reactors). If somebody comes up with something new that
can threaten someone’s business and/or wallet then there will be
resistance. The more powerful they are the more resistance. I get that
part.
But what about France, Great Britain, China, and Japan? Especially
China and Japan. These two countries alone would have a vested interest in
building one of these and do not have the political hurdles that the U.S.
has to deal with. China, being a mega-manufacturing giant that wants more
energy and less pollution, would be all over this. Then there is Japan
with natural disasters. I find it hard to believe that the most
technologically advanced countries in the world have never heard of thorium
or heard of it and decided not to use it. This makes me wonder if
pro-thorium videos are only showing one side of the coin.
Searching for disadvantages I found this on the internet (I know
anyone can type anything on the internet but these look credible.):
*Breeding in a thermal neutron spectrum is slow and requires extensive
reprocessing. The feasibility of reprocessing is still open.
*There is a higher cost of fuel fabrication and reprocessing than those
that use traditional solid fuel rods.
*Thorium, when being irradiated for use in reactors, will make uranium-232,
which is very dangerous due to the gamma rays it emits. This irradiation
process may be able to be altered slightly by removing protactinium-233.
The irradiation would then make uranium-233 in lieu of uranium-232, which
can be used in nuclear weapons to make thorium into a dual purpose fuel.
*Unlike uranium, natural thorium contains no fissile isotopes; fissile
material, generally 233U, 235U or plutonium, must be added to achieve
criticality. This, along with the high sintering temperature necessary to
make thorium-dioxide fuel, complicates fuel fabrication. Oak Ridge National
Laboratory experimented with thorium tetrafluoride as fuel in a molten salt
reactor from 1964–1969, which was expected to be easier to process and
separate from contaminants that slow or stop the chain reaction.
*Fission product processing greatly complicated by the presence of Thorium
*Higher neutron leakage
*Weakly positive temperature coefficient, can be fixed but at large cost
*Pa removal needed unless both thorium and 233U loading increased
substantially
Now I will say I am an enthusiast and the idea of using thorium sounds
good, but all this excitement for thorium is starting to remind me of cold
fusion and fueling cars with water.
Graeme Ab says:
February 7, 2015 at 4:40 pm (UTC 0)
Why am I only seeing this now?…..3 years later.
This should be the biggest story in “news”.
beauvais681 says:
February 7, 2015 at 5:08 pm (UTC 0)
The consumption of elements for nuclear is not even close to the
environmental problem..The massive unsustainable problem is containment of
all that is produced and becomes an extremely high cost for energy over
time. Thousands of years for some and hundreds for others,,, which is a
monumental task considering what exist and that we have only had nuclear
power generation for sixty yrs June 24th, This ends up as a priceless cost
of energy with risk to life with every containment
Currently 435 in operation with 71 under construction word wide. and not
sure why all 71 are not thorium,,but fuel production should stop due to
containment cost issues and the fact that fukushima is 1 power station out
of 435. And the question is how much more nuclear fuel can be released
without mass extinction? As this fuel in nature bio accumulates n
degenerates DNA from simple life, plants on up the food chain to continue
risk after the host dies and mutations occur,,,all man made radioactive
elements release becomes a pancake to whats been released in the
past,,,there’s a lot to consider,,,,,gle
David Mills says:
February 7, 2015 at 6:08 pm (UTC 0)
I have watched this a dozen times and you went back and put in way too much
music. Gordon, this music makes it really hard to follow.
Michael McNeil says:
February 7, 2015 at 6:14 pm (UTC 0)
The presentation is given at a crushingly breathless race; too rapid to
keep up with. You are not in a race to teach the obvious you are in a
struggle with people who produce fuel and won’t make money using Thorium.
The profit ratio on a barrel of oil is almost nothing. But if you can sell
it by the shipload…
Big oil is happy enough with the long game it can play with weapons related
nuclear fuel. They may even be playing the long game on both sides with
that.
They are happy enough with subsidised alternatives so long as reality isn’t
delayed for too long. Once enough people and agencies get stung converting
to alternative technology, they won’t want to get on board the only real
alternative to oil.
They are not interested in thorium, they never were interested and they are
not going to be interested in a technology that nobody is going to have to
pay for one day.
Think about it. If they don’t care about human beings who live near
oilfields, they are not going to help any that will screw up their balance
sheets.
You can tell people what you like, teach them all they need to know but if
you are not appealing to investors, you are never going to get anywhere.
Who is going to invest in thorium. That is the fifty quadrillion dollar
question.
(Annual Inflation: 3.84%; Total Inflation: 1403.54% according to one
calculator site.)
If wages were one dollar an hour set by law in 1942 (more like $1.50 to
$2.00 and they worked longer hours) and it is about fifteen dollars an hour
today, that is $54,000,000,000,000,000 x 15 question or an 810 quadrillion
dollar question.
Ask yourself an eight hundred and ten quadrillion dollar question:
Who in their right minds is going to give up that kind of income?
There is an even more important question you might consider:
If you and your friend who has a thorium mine got local people to agree to
pay a few dollars each to fund a thorium reactor (so nobody there has to
pay for electricity again except for maintenance of the delivery system)
….how long would it be before you and he had an unfortunate accident
driving to meet councillors from the next city?
Adam Ski says:
February 7, 2015 at 7:08 pm (UTC 0)
WOW! Another discovery! (for me) THORIUM! “Thorium reactors” / “..it make
sense..” “liquid Fluoride” “100% safe” WOW! Is anyone out there to point
me in the right dirrection where I could learn something about this (%^$@)
Thorium!? This video makes me dizzy!!!! good is here bad is there and
another BS everywhere!!!
“A liquid-fluoride reactor uses a solution of several fluoride salts,
typically lithium fluoride, beryllium fluoride, and uranium tetrafluoride,
as its basic nuclear fuel.”
Q: Are the salts safe?
A: Very safe. Unlike other coolants considered for high-performance
reactors (like liquid sodium) the salts will not react dangerously with air
or water…..”
I have a bad feeling about it… Anything this (^%#@) human race discovers
is used against it’s own. …very bad feelings…
Arthur Yagudayev says:
February 7, 2015 at 7:09 pm (UTC 0)
Please sign this petition for a Thorium reactor which is 100% meltdown
proof and will also recycle nuclear waste and get rid of it by converting
waste into energy and it will also produce cancer fighting isotopes.
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-nuclear-regulatory-commission-departments-of-energy-and-the-epa-to-grant-licenses-and-finance-the-construction-of-lftr-reactors
TheAnointedSamurai says:
February 7, 2015 at 7:36 pm (UTC 0)
Brilliant stuff! Very Amero-centric though, which is understandable. I just
wish we had more people talking about freeing humanity from the very real,
hegemonic, war-incensed, megalomaniac, Orwellian, slavery inducing
interests that will(are) try to resist this, or, try control it themselves
for ridiculously supernormal profits that will continue to enrich and
embolden the 1% of the 1%, rather than just thinking about Americans.
Anyway, spreading the word.
acecade345 says:
February 7, 2015 at 7:57 pm (UTC 0)
Thorium Reactor makes sense. Lithium Polymer makes sense. Making people
aware of these things is as important as making these things. What is
misunderstood over the ‘batteries’ in an electric car? The so-called
‘dangers’ of the battery packs. Energy Density. Relatively speaking,
gasoline is simply, just as dangerous as Lithium polymer packs. What I love
about Thorium reactor idea? It MAkes Sense! Kirk is very good at
explanation, and expressing an idea. Let’s get to work…getting this idea
some force of action. Let’s do something that makes perfect sense for once!
Nick Donnelly says:
February 7, 2015 at 8:15 pm (UTC 0)
China no longer has a stranglehold on the world’s supply of rare earth
metals”
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/22/7031243/china-grip-rare-earth-metals-supply-weakening
Javier Lopez says:
February 7, 2015 at 8:28 pm (UTC 0)
Thorium: An energy solution – THORIUM REMIX 2011
#Thorium #thoriumenergycheaperthancoal #sustainableenergy
Arthur Yagudayev says:
February 7, 2015 at 8:45 pm (UTC 0)
Please sign this petition for a Thorium reactor which is 100% meltdown
proof and will also recycle nuclear waste and get rid of it by converting
waste into energy and it will also produce cancer fighting isotopes.
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-nuclear-regulatory-commission-departments-of-energy-and-the-epa-to-grant-licenses-and-finance-the-construction-of-lftr-reactors
Cibi Thomas says:
February 7, 2015 at 9:06 pm (UTC 0)
best video watched from long time… nice rendering… informative…
THORIUM… Indian scientists are brain storming on it… alternative is a
MUST against petrol and diesel for human kind… May GOD bless the world
scientists to work together for the future..
Nicholas Llewellyn says:
February 7, 2015 at 9:29 pm (UTC 0)
So, what’s the catch with #LFTR? http://youtu.be/P9M__yYbsZ4
arkedysvidrigailov says:
February 7, 2015 at 9:40 pm (UTC 0)
Oh, what’s the music in the beginning? It’s quite cool!
Jeremy Huehn says:
February 7, 2015 at 10:20 pm (UTC 0)
Impressive! Makes me want to study nuclear engineering!
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