The Key to the Next Energy Revolution?

ScienceNOW ^ | 13 March 2014 | Robert F. Service

[fabian]

Not when you compare a gas fill up at say, $50...and a full electric charge at a few dollars! Are you kidding? People like me are tired of being hosed at the pumps for whatever reason that the insiders trading barrel oil decide on any given day. It is insane. Just a few weeks ago, gas here in n. Ca. was a high $3.40. Now it is $3.80. Did their production costs go way up all of a sudden? Hell no. The insiders just decided they would take the world economies for more billions because of the world situations. Well, isn’t that convenient. If other necessities like clothing and food were under these thieves control like that, there would be revolution in the streets. What an utter rip off and the sooner we are out of that system, the better.

[RayChuang88]

Once we start to commercially scale up the liquid fluoride thorium reactor, we could generate such a gigantic excess amount of electricity that suddenly, things that require a huge amount of electricity such as electrifying our rail lines, large scale seawater desalinization, and large-scale implementation of electric car chargers become economically viable. After all, at the beginning of the 20th Century our petroleum infrastructure was primarily for the distribution of kerosene for lamp fuel, but technological developments within 20 years made it possible to distribute gasoline for the fast-growing fleet of automobiles by 1920.