Scaling the LFTR: Large Scale Production and Cost
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Replacement of natural gas fired generating facilities would also produce a rapid repayment schedule, and immediate profit for the investors combined with the potential of lowering ratepayers cost. Thus far from giving us a world of expensive electricity, and electrical shortages created by an idiotic negawatts approach, the LFTR promised abundant low cost electricity, and the replacement of 80% or more of current energy delivered by fossil fuels, while lowering energy costs even after capital costs and interests are paid.
No wonder the oil companies and the coal barons are desperately hoping that Energy Secretary Chu will continue to follow the Energy Department line on the LFTR. No wonder Chu tells Congress that there is a terrible cracking problem with the LFTR, a problem that ORNL scientists solved in the 1970's. The advent of the mass produced LFTR would put paid to the fossil industry in the United States. The LFTR is extremely scalable, and can be produced in massive numbers at a low enough cost and to almost completely replace fossil fuels by 2050, and there are a whole lot of powerful folks that don't want you to know that.
LTFR???? no place do I see what that stands for. typically the first time an abreviation is used, it shoudl have an explaination of what it means????
I am not so happy about nukes right now as a global energy source. too many bad nations shoyuld not have ANY nuke technolgy. it is thge nuke reactor technolgy we let pakistan have, that lead to them getting an A-Bomb.
look how iran had started out, a peaceful reactor for energy, and now they have a weapons program.
oh heck, we will never keep the technology from them, we ought to just nuke the scum nations now, before they get too many bombs.
Thorium and uranium occur in trace amounts in coal, so there’s more radioactive waste currently emitted from coal-burning power plants than from nuclear power plants.
CO2 is everywhere. Most of it is solid, or in solution and people don’t seem to recognize it. If you want your plants to get green, blow a little carbon dioxide their way.
In the post carbon era, LOL, what will carbon life forms do.
That’s almost unreadable.
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The generation and use of energy is central to the maintenance of organization. Life itself is a state of organization maintained by the continual use of sources of energy. Human civilization has reached the state it has by the widespread use of energy, and for the large fraction of the world that aspires to a higher standard of living, more energy will be required for them to achieve it.
Therefore, I embrace the idea that we need energy, and probably need much more of it than we currently have. We should never waste energy, and should always seek to use energy efficiently as possible and practical, but energy itself will always be needed.
This weblog is about the use of thorium as an energy source of sufficient magnitude for thousands of years of future energy needs. Thorium, if used efficiently, can be converted to energy far more easily and safely than any other energy source of comparable magnitude, including nuclear fusion and uranium fission.
Briefly, my basic principles are:
1. Nuclear reactions (changes in the binding energy of nuclei) release about a million times more energy than chemical reactions (changes in the binding energy of electrons), therefore, it is logical to pursue nuclear reactions as dense sources of energy.
2. Changing the binding energy of the nucleus with uncharged particles (neutrons inducing fission) is much easier than changing the nuclear state with charged particles (fusion), because fission does not contend with electrostatic repulsion as fusion does.
3. Naturally occuring fissile material (uranium-235) will not sustain us for millennia due to its scarcity. We must fission fertile isotopes (uranium-238, thorium-232) which are abundant in order to sustain energy production for millenia. Fertile isotopes such as U-238 and Th-232 basically require 2 neutrons to fission (one to convert, one to fission), and require fission reactions that generate more than 2 neutrons per absorption in a fissile nucleus.
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He has 12 principles....read on....
Nuclear Energy is fine, but it is NOT necessary to subscribe to the lies regarding CO2 as being something to be controlled.
Ah, just build a fleet of cargo shuttles and mine the moon for helium 3.
Problem solved.
World's 'safest' nuclear reactor in India
This was a 2005 thread
Thanks Ernest.
JPB, I’m surprised you haven’t posted graphics of “Thor”. You’re not ill are ya? ;’)
Thanks, bfl.
Cheers!
later