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Serpo
26th April 2011, 02:32 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU3cUssuz-U&feature=youtu.be

Electrical power is, and will increasingly become, the desired form of energy for its convenience, safety, flexibility and applicability. Even future transportation embraces electric cars, trains, and chemical fuel production (jet fuel, hydrogen, etc.) based upon an abundant electrical supply. Although existing energy sources can and should be expanded where practical, no one source has shown to be practical to rapidly fulfill the world's energy requirements effectively. Presently there is an existing source of energy ideally suited to electrical energy production that is not being exploited anywhere in the world today, although its existence and practicality has been know since the earliest days of nuclear science. Thorium is the third source of fission energy and the LFTR is the idealized mechanism to turn this resource into electrical energy. Enough safe, clean energy, globally sustainable for 1000's of years at US standards.

This talk is aimed at explaining this thorium energy resource from fundamental physics to today's practical applications. The presentation is sufficient for the non-scientist to grasp the whole subject, but will be intriguing to even classically trained nuclear engineers. By providing the historical context in which the technology was discovered and later developed into a power reactor, the story of thorium's disappearance as an energy source is revealed. But times have changed, and today, thorium energy can be safely exploited in a completely new form of nuclear reactor.

The LFTR is unique, having a hot liquid core thus eliminating fuel fabrication costs and the need for a large reactor. It cannot have a nuclear meltdown and is so safe that typical control rods are not required at all. This design topples all the conventional arguments against conventional energy sources in such areas as:

* Waste Production
* Safety
* Proliferation
* Capital Costs and Location
* Environmental Impact
* Social Acceptance
* Flexibility
* Grid Infrastructure
* Efficiency
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHs2Ugxo7-8&feature=related

Serpo
26th April 2011, 03:13 PM
This maybe even better...........


Welcome To Marshall Hydrothermal-The First System Ever To Unlock The Enormous Energy Potential Of Hydrothermal Vents

What Are Hydrothermal Vents?



Hydrothermal vents have been around since the planet was first formed. They are a natural by-product of Plate Tectonics, the process that forms, moves, and eventually consumes entire continents.

The largest geological feature on Earth is one continuous mountain range over 40,000 miles (65,000 km) long, collectively called the Mid-Ocean Ridges. This system encircles the globe like the seam on a baseball, and vents are formed at the points where the continental plates are pulling apart from each other.





Seawater is forced into fissures in the ocean floor by the tremendous pressures found about 2300 meters (7500 feet) below the surface where vents are located. That seawater eventually finds its way into the magma of the Earth where it is superheated and then returned to the ocean at temperatures as high as 400o C (750o F).

The black "smoke" you see is actually a cocktail of metals and minerals drawn from deep within the earth which precipitates out and rains down upon the seabed below when it hits the extremely cold water at the bottom of the ocean. The gold deposited on the chimney by the process is clearly visible in the picture above.

The Marshall Hydrothermal Recovery System is the first mention in the patent literature of any utilization of hydrothermal vents for energy, or anything else.

It goes far beyond simply recovering the staggering heat output of the vents. It is also the world's first practical deep-ocean mining system, and it also has the potential of becoming the most energy-efficient water desalination system ever devised.


http://marshallsystem.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6-_UTU_bJ0&feature=player_embedded

woodman
26th April 2011, 04:11 PM
I am not convinced about the thorium reactors. It is all experimental at this point and the tons upon tons of lead they would use is a non-sequitur. Nuetron beams make me nervous too.

Gaillo
26th April 2011, 04:56 PM
Molten liquid Fluoride... what could POSSIBLY go wrong? :o

Serpo
26th April 2011, 05:14 PM
Molten liquid Fluoride... what could POSSIBLY go wrong? :o


One source they could use is tap water....haha

They havnt started to put plutonium in the water yet.........hang on .........dang