[neverdem]

Preserving the Mary Rose

25 pharmaceutical companies will phase out animal antibiotics

Autism Diagnoses Surge by 30 Percent in Kids, CDC Reports

Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[Georgia Girl 2]

What happened to LENR?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[RayChuang88]

While that sounds great, I think by 2050, the days of motor vehicles and trains using internal combustion engines fueled by petroleum products will be over.

Here's the reason why: the development of the liquid fluoride thorium reactor, a nuclear reactor that uses plentiful thorium-232 dissolved in molten fluoride salts as nuclear fuel in a liquid form. Extremely safe to run and with very little radioactive waste generation, LFTR's could be assembled on such a large scale that there will be enough excess power generated to do three things: 1) replace gasoline and diesel fueled internal combustion engines in automobiles with future electric batteries that allow for a single-charge range of 800 kilometers (497 miles), electrify all of our long distance railroad lines, and do truly large scale seawater desalinization to turn huge swaths of what was once desert into productive farmland.

[nomad]

In theory the liquid fuels can be distilled out of the mother liquors so that shouldn`t be a problem but Thallium is a pretty toxic, even deadly, heavy metal. Its as bad as mercury. They`d better be able to control the toxic compounds involved or this could turn ugly fast.

[kiryandil]

The work opens the door to displacing oil with abundant natural gas

Right. Natural gas will be abundant and cheap until everyone starts using it to power their truck fleets, electric power plants, etc.

Natural gas is great for heating homes and cooking food. Don't waste it on the other BS because it's "abundant". Mine coal, refine the thorium out of it to power LFTR reactors, and use some of the electricity to refine the remaining coal with the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Don't listen to the Watermelon Greenies about natural gas. IT'S A TRAP!

[Paladin2]

"...liquid methanol...."

IS nasty stuff.