Thorium...

[Cebu_4_2]

Interesting touch on the subject. I invested a chunk into this 25 years ago and sold even, no traction so I bailed. You cant make nuclear bombs from it so it is useless for TPTB.


http://youtu.be/T2wa6Pk-hYI

http://youtu.be/T2wa6Pk-hYI

[osoab]

nice promo for denninger in the first few sentences. karl has been promoting still for the past year.

[Ares]

With how much money is being thrown at legacy nuclear energy systems. I don't see Thorium taking off in the U.S. The problem is systemic. People's livelihoods depends on all that money for jobs, and investors want an ROI on the money they have invested in legacy nuclear energy projects and programs.

Unfortunately we're going to have to look to China for Thorium nuclear reactor research as they are taking it head on.

[Cebu_4_2]

With how much money is being thrown at legacy nuclear energy systems. I don't see Thorium taking off in the U.S. The problem is systemic. People's livelihoods depends on all that money for jobs, and investors want an ROI on the money they have invested in legacy nuclear energy projects and programs.

Unfortunately we're going to have to look to China for Thorium nuclear reactor research as they are taking it head on.

They are nuking jobs and investments across the scale, power wont matter. They are taking out their own bankers now, the implosion is being averted by the infighting. They are fukt.

[Neuro]

The quantities mentioned 1 gram Thorium= 7000 Gallons of gasoline... Is that true?

[Ares]

The quantities mentioned 1 gram Thorium= 7000 Gallons of gasoline... Is that true?

Thorium is an extremely dense energy resource. Like he said though, it can't be used for Nuclear Weapons.. Why research on it stopped in the U.S. in the 1950's.

Here's the break down by the numbers.

Assuming an energy content for thorium of 11 MW*hr/g in a LFTR and an energy content for uranium of 0.035 MW*hr/g in a light-water reactor,

(26 g thorium)*(11 MW*hr/g thorium) = 286 MW*hr of electricity
(7 g uranium)*(0.035 MW*hr/g uranium) = 0.245 MW*hr of electricity

At an electricity price of $40 to 60/MW*hr of electricity, the value of the energy that would be produced from this material is

(286 MW*hr)*($40 to 60/MW*hr) = $11,000 to 17,000 per cubic meter of crust
(0.245 MW*hr)*($40 to 60/MW*hr) = $10 to 15 per cubic meter of crust

Source: http://energyfromthorium.com/cubic-meter/