Fusion Power

[Clinton Huxley]

Banks, panzers, lager, leiderhosen, they'll get you one way or the other.

[MiM]

It does not matter that fusion power is 50 years, or 100 years in the future. The Chinese are a practical people who do not waste money on pipe dreams before their time. They have built, instead, a thorium fission powered reactor, which is (in prototype form) already generating electricity. Thorium is safer than uranium, produces a lot less waste, and there is so much available, it could keep humanity supplied with electricity for 1,000 years, even at ten times the current production.

If I haven't missed something, you are a bit ahead of your time. The Chinese prototype for a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) is planned to start working in 2015. Btw, China aren't the only ones interested in thorium, mainly India has had projects going on for a long time already. Different tests with using thorium (usually mixed up with uranium) has been done in several countries for decades.

But, yes. Thorium as a nuclear fuel is definitely interesting, although not without its own problems.

[rainbow]

It does not matter that fusion power is 50 years, or 100 years in the future. The Chinese are a practical people who do not waste money on pipe dreams before their time. They have built, instead, a thorium fission powered reactor, which is (in prototype form) already generating electricity. Thorium is safer than uranium, produces a lot less waste, and there is so much available, it could keep humanity supplied with electricity for 1,000 years, even at ten times the current production.

If I haven't missed something, you are a bit ahead of your time. The Chinese prototype for a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) is planned to start working in 2015. Btw, China aren't the only ones interested in thorium, mainly India has had projects going on for a long time already. Different tests with using thorium (usually mixed up with uranium) has been done in several countries for decades.

But, yes. Thorium as a nuclear fuel is definitely interesting, although not without its own problems.

You used to get toothpaste made of Thorium.

[JimC]

It gave your teeth that special glow...

[rainbow]

It gave your teeth that special glow...

[Coito ergo sum]

Extracting energy from the planets core using existing geothermal engineering technology is simpler, cheaper and doesn't need a fancy prototype.

So, get on it.

[Clinton Huxley]

You can get all the energy you need out of water. I got an email from a lovely man in Tajikstan who knew how to do it, had to send him my bank details for some reason. Still, lovely chap.

[cronus]

You can get all the energy you need out of water. I got an email from a lovely man in Tajikstan who knew how to do it, had to send him my bank details for some reason. Still, lovely chap.

I can do that at half the price you've been quoted. Please send me the same bank details and I'll get on with it right away.

[Clinton Huxley]

You can get all the energy you need out of water. I got an email from a lovely man in Tajikstan who knew how to do it, had to send him my bank details for some reason. Still, lovely chap.

I can do that at half the price you've been quoted. Please send me the same bank details and I'll get on with it right away.

Thats very kind of you! I'll do just that.