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Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium
Telegraph [UK] ^ | 8/29/10 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Posted on 08/29/2010 12:01:55 PM PDT by Nachum

If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years. We could then stop arguing about wind mills, deepwater drilling, IPCC hockey sticks, or strategic reliance on the Kremlin. History will move on fast.

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KEYWORDS: energy; fossil; fuels; kill; obama
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Right. Let's empty your bank account first to try it, wiseguy.
1 posted on 08/29/2010 12:01:57 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Actually, I’ve been saying this for years. And I want bids on the stock of the first company allowed to try this.


2 posted on 08/29/2010 12:05:35 PM PDT by tanuki (Obamacare, Cap and Tax, Amnesty, in that order....)
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Sorry, Obama is an enviro-wacko. And if you even say "nuclear," they act like a vampire smelling garlic.

Besides, Obama spent our allowance money already.

3 posted on 08/29/2010 12:05:49 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: Nachum

4 posted on 08/29/2010 12:06:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: Nachum

I would prefer that the government not be accumulating all of these trillions and trillions of debt, but if they are going to be spending these insane amounts of money, this is actually the sort of stuff I think they should be spending it on: energy resources and infrastructure.


5 posted on 08/29/2010 12:07:12 PM PDT by jpl (It's "My Big Fat Deadly Greek Riot", coming soon to a bankrupt socialist state near you.)
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To: Nachum

Yeah, apparently, Ambrose does not realize 1) the cost of the Manhattan Project....in relative 1940’s monetary terms, and 2) does not realize that the US is broke... =.=


6 posted on 08/29/2010 12:08:27 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Nachum

Will it strengthen the United States?

Will if weaken petrodollar fueled islamists?

The answers to those questions will tell you with 100% certainty where 0bama squats to pee on the issue.


7 posted on 08/29/2010 12:11:15 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 582 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Nachum

He works for the Saudis along with McCain. They want us reliant on Saudi oil even though we have 3 to 4 time sthe saudis reserves in oil, nat gas, shale oil, methane hydrates, coal diesel,etc.


8 posted on 08/29/2010 12:13:45 PM PDT by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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To: tanuki

Yes, you could drive your Government Motors nuclear powered CAFE-standard-meeting thingmabob. We can’t wait for it to be planend and carried to fruition by the Ci-cago genuises. Surely the’re capable of such!


9 posted on 08/29/2010 12:14:02 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Lysandru
Besides, Obama spent our allowance money already

The demorats have spent our great grand children's allowance.

10 posted on 08/29/2010 12:16:33 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Nachum
His goal isn't a switch to clean, green, free, groovy energy.

It is to funnel America's wealth to the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

11 posted on 08/29/2010 12:20:15 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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Thorium is a very promising source of energy.

Government can best help by getting all the red tape out of the way, not by paying for the development.


12 posted on 08/29/2010 12:21:39 PM PDT by devere
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I agree. However, so many of our fellow citizens cannot grasp that nobama is doing what he is doing on purpose.


13 posted on 08/29/2010 12:22:08 PM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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Once you start looking more closely, it blows your mind away. You can run civilisation on thorium for hundreds of thousands of years, and it’s essentially free. You don’t have to deal with uranium cartels," he said. Thorium is so common that miners treat it as a nuisance, a radioactive by-product if they try to dig up rare earth metals. The US and Australia are full of the stuff. So are the granite rocks of Cornwall. You do not need much: all is potentially usable as fuel, compared to just 0.7pc for uranium.

Wow. Let's do it. Shame on the left for not promoting this. Rightwing ho!

14 posted on 08/29/2010 12:22:51 PM PDT by November 2010
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Is this one of those things that will crash an economy based on oil?


15 posted on 08/29/2010 12:35:40 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: hal ogen
I agree. However, so many of our fellow citizens cannot grasp that nobama is doing what he is doing on purpose.

So true. I am constantly amazed by the sheer number of people living in a state of chronic denial.

They can't believe that Islam wants to enslave or kill everyone on Earth. They can't believe Democrats are the success of the international Communist conspiracy.

They can't believe the President with No Past is purposefully working against America and is adhering to pre-published plans for achieving its destruction perfectly.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

16 posted on 08/29/2010 12:42:29 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Nachum

This article works from the false assumption that Obamao might want to improve the USA. He is here to kill us.


17 posted on 08/29/2010 12:50:23 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Nachum
Typical socialist European solution - get the government to spend our money to solve a non-existent problem. If thorium is such a good fuel, then the government should ease the restrictions on building new thorium powered power plants and let the free market decide. If it is such a good idea, then there will be no shortage of companies getting into the thorium game.

The reality is, this is all just a way to avoid doing anything that would even resemble a free-market solution and will only increase government control over more energy resources.

18 posted on 08/29/2010 12:55:20 PM PDT by Left2Right (Starve the Beast!)
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To: Nachum

With 251 million cars/trucks/motorcycles, and who knows how many airplanes, jets helicopters (military and non-military), it’s gonnna take a dammed site more than 5 years before the majority of them were somehow converted to a non-has/diesel based fuel source. But, the sooner we start, the better.


19 posted on 08/29/2010 12:56:27 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Nachum

For about US$100Bn upfront, the US could save $400Bn a decade in energy costs going forward , if you use estimates of oil/gas reserves reaching a pricing plateau due to diminishing returns on remaining reserves.

However, the usefulness of additional supply will probably be wasted, as China is effectively embargoing all the rare earth minerals needed to build electric car batteries.

Either way... money spent to build 25 pebble bed reactors in the US would have done massively more good for the country’s citizens than wasting it on Fannie Freddie, AIG etc.


20 posted on 08/29/2010 1:11:50 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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