[TheForge] Power in its diverse manifestations. OT Thorium

[Bruce .]

Yes, the video is by Kirk Sorensen.

Okay, gang.  It's off-topic, but how do we get Congress to get off it's
collective ass and do something with this?

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR) should have and could have been
> online 42 years ago.  The concept was proven in the 60s at Oak Ridge where
> the prototype ran for 4 years and was promptly shelved when the
> shit-for-brains DoD learned it would produce no weapons-grade materials.
>
> That we have commercialized breeders to produce weapons-grade fissile
> material is a good indication of how hopelessly stupid and insanely corrupt
> some people are.
>
> One of the great thing about LFTRs is they will burn any and all nuclear
> wastes.  Burning uranium is idiotic, given its rarity.  Thorium is
> everywhere, it cannot be made into a thermonuclear weapon, it is inherently
> safe because the reaction is self limiting.
>
> The ultimate waste product is Plutonium 238, which cannot be used to make
> bombs.  It is, however, the perfect power source for space probes and as it
> turns out, we are just about out of it.
>
> All that high level waste from death holes like Hanford, Savannah River,
> Rocky Flats, etc. could be burned SAFELY down into Pu238 - we have tens of
> thousands of years worth of nearly limitless energy reserves in all of that
> poison.
>
> Speaking of safety, LFTRs operate at atmospheric pressure, obviating the
> need for a containment structure.  The reactors run a high temperature
> molten salt core that is plugged with solid salt that is kept congealed by
> a jet of cold air.  If the facility loses power, the air blast is halted,
> the plug melts, and the molten core drains into a separate tank and the
> reaction stops.
>
> There is more to it, but I would have to go back to my notes and am too
> lazy.
>
> LFTRs appear to hold few disadvantages.  About 1/3 pound of thorium
> contains all the energy the average person will use in his entire life time
> including powering motor vehicles.
>
> Is the video by Kirk Sorensen?  If not, look him up.  He gives a good
> presentation.
>
>
> On 1/10/2013 10:41 AM, CGRAF wrote:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**feature=player_embedded&v=**uK367T7h6ZY<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uK367T7h6ZY>
>>
>> This was sent tome by my son.
>>
>> It sounds too good,but then again so did fossil fuels,when the wood and
>> whale oil started to run out, same for electric power distribution at
>> one time.
>>
>> I do not have the nads for parsing this one. My guess is that someone
>> here does.
>>
>> Mike Graf
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