We need a LFTR ping list...
LFTRs are the power source of the future. No fuel worries at all for thousands of years. That means it will remain cheap for a very long time. 7,000 tons of Thorium can power the US for one year. All of it. There is one single mine in Idaho with enough thorium to power the US for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. You can double or even quadruple the amount of energy we consume and never ever have to worry about supply.
Sounds very Star Trekky but the cool thing is that we (the US of A) built two of them already and ran them successfully for years at Oak Ridge. They even turned one of them off over the weekends! Imagine that. No more peek power worries...
Care to guess where the ChiComs got the plans for their Thorium reactors? Yep. Our archives.
There are so many overwhelming positive reasons to use them.
Here’s another point on the Thorium front — Cheap, plentiful and stable power will always be the bedrock for a successful economy. With no worries about supplies for thousands of years, our economy would grow like never before with LFTRs as the main power source.
I really can’t understand why we’re not heavily invested in LFTRs. It just blows me away.
It sounds as if Thorium waste could also be contained in thick concrete drums and dropped into the deep ocean. It would lost most radioactivity before the concrete would break down.
On a separate note India has a tremendous resource in Solar energy. I was reading several year ago how merely one or two solar panels per house were changing village life. Unfortunately the demand became so great in Germany which has been subsidizing solar with “feed in tariffs” that it was becoming too expensive for Indians to use. I hope that thin film solar is developed rapidly for widespread use everywhere.