[RayChuang88]

Also, even if they have to impose strict rules on the emissions from burning coal (I think it's likely to happen in both China and India given China's bad experience with bad air in their cities), coal is widely available and it also means less dependency on that cartel named OPEC.

But in the longer, Indian and Chinese scientists are seriously looking at whether Alvin Weinberg's work on molten-salt nuclear reactors can be scaled up to commercial scale. If it works, suddenly thorium-232--an actinide series radioactive element as common in the soil as lead!--becomes the nuclear fuel of choice, and in one fell swoop permanently end the energy crisis. We know that not only on Earth, but on the Moon and possibly Mars, the amount of thorium-232 in the ground is enough to power Earth's energy needs for effectively tens of thousands of years at current power usage rates.

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But in the longer, Indian and Chinese scientists are seriously looking at whether Alvin Weinberg's work on molten-salt nuclear reactors can be scaled up to commercial scale. If it works, suddenly thorium-232--an actinide series radioactive element as common in the soil as lead!--becomes the nuclear fuel of choice, and in one fell swoop permanently end the energy crisis. We know that not only on Earth, but on the Moon and possibly Mars, the amount of thorium-232 in the ground is enough to power Earth's energy needs for effectively tens of thousands of years at current power usage rates.

Outstanding Ray...

I have been researching this arena with all the Iran talk. They don't need a Fusion program, they need to join a Thorium program. I found a ton of YouTube videos many over an hr in length of an organization interviewing the remaining liquid Florine cooled Reactor engineers and how they were cut off ( funding ) by Nixon who wanted Breeders ( in CA to garner jobs their ) and how they never made the next step to Thorium.

They want Electric Cars? Good, build a ton of Thorium Reactors to have a Thorium based economy,it works for me...

For starters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI