Monday, September 01, 2014

not just EM drives, China's working on thorium reactors as well...,


peakprosperity |  Two years ago, we interviewed Kirk Sorenson about the potential for thorium to offer humanity a safe, cheap and abundant source of energy.

He is an active advocate for developing liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology, the details of which were covered in our earlier podcast: A Detailed Exploration of Thorium's Potential As An Energy Source. That interview concluded with Kirk's observation that the West could have a fully-operational LFTR reactor up and running at commercial scale within a decade, but it won't, because it is simply choosing not to prioritize exploring its potential.

But that doesn't mean other countries are ignoring thorium's promise.

Kirk returns this week to relay what has happened in the thorium space since our last conversation. The East, most notably China, is now fully-mobilized around getting its first reactor operational by as soon as 2020. If indeed thorium reactors are as successful as hoped, the US will find itself playing catch up against countries who suddenly hold a tremendous technology advantage: Fist tap Dale.

15 comments:

CNu said...

and the value of all that navel-gazing diagramming would be...? If you post that on this thread without engaging my questions, i will delete it. Steve Cokeley 2.0 has no value if you're only naming public figures. Instead, tell me something i don't already know about what these public figures are up to? What is the scope, aim, and duration of their project, or should i say, the Brookings project towhich they've been assigned?

woodensplinter said...

Still more obviously in America, present time orientation requires some or another reconciliation with the Blacks. Big Don, your compulsive selfishness and hatefulness have blinded you to the fact that America is a creolized culture whether you like it or not. Either you make a place in your thoughts and deeds for everyone on the American lifeboat, or, you will surely sink and die right along with the people you obsessively envy pretend to despise.

BigDonOne said...

...Not to mention all the American high-technology the Clintons sold under the table to China and other foreign interests for well-laundered campaign contributions....

Vic78 said...

I wonder if the NYT ever takes a look at their model. They could find the same thing they're seeing with tennis.

CNu said...

BD stop playin!!! If big-assed head Slick Willie, all the assets and none of the liabilities of his pappy managed to get away with brokering his representational talents to the highest bidder, then why you hatin? Mebbe this muhhukka is an objective agent of darwinian high-evolution? Mebbe his role is to catalyze a "bidding war" over the fruits of "human" labor/effort? Mebbe keeping the wheels greased this way is the only way to ensure that entropic and de-evolutionary forces don't hold sway in the affairs of the species? Mebbe without this provoked competition, this self-directed "evolution" we collapse for certain under the entropic inertia of tribal endogamy?

makheru bradley said...

[The Elected Black Imperialist Powers - That Are Still Running "American Imperialism"] That has to be news to Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Jim McNerney, Marillyn Hewson, Jeffrey Immelt, and Rupert Murdoch.

To be imperialist powers a group of people must first control a power base, which they extend beyond the borders of their own territory, to control other territories, either directly or via proxies. What power base is controlled by these “Elected Black Imperialist Powers?” At best the people you keep railing about are corporate managers. Otherwise, they are nothing more than a dime a dozen flunkies, puppets, or lackeys. They are embryos who could not survive without an umbilical cord attached to the placenta of the real power base.

BigDonOne said...

...Not unlike the First Foozlim whose campaigns were similarly funded significantly by laundered bux from Fuzzlimistan.....

CNu said...

You mebbe have some evidential links to share in support of the above assertion?

Dale Asberry said...

Your anatomy is seriously broken. That continual methane outgassing from your mouth just ain't right.

BigDonOne said...

Here ya go - this was just one guy... http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/meet-obamas-million-dollar-muslim-donor/ Not hard to envision the network of offshore banks back to the actual Fuzzy source(s). Again, that's just one guy..... Then you have this one----> https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/arabpacs.html and that's just what is public. There are now over 2000 mosques in America, with all their followers/connections to the Fuzzy homeland(s) - go figure, doesn't take much imagination.......

BigDonOne said...

Punctuation for the above comments....

CNu said...

In the era of Super PAC's you manage to come up with a paltry $44K in 2012 from all the Arab PAC's combined, and, a single $million donor? GTFOH with that silliness man.....,

Naive Tom said...

Does BD respond or correct his thinking? No.

BigDonOne said...

BD's priceless astute observation for the day only survived for a few milliseconds before it was mysteriously********.....!!

CNu said...

lol, sometimes I'm in the foyer when you streak up onto my porch, place and light a sack of dogscat, ring my doorbell and run. This was one of those mornings....,

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