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As a spin off from the REE thread in which China is trying to strangle the market there (which won't work - they aren't rare), the subject of thorium has come up. I have recently run across a great article on thorium research happening now. Awesome stuff - imagine a gasless engine capable of 330hp that doesn't run out of energy until it hits 300k miles. And it is being developed here - this is the kind of research that we need in the US.
Another article about safe nuclear energy. Unfortunately it looks like the anti-nuclear hysteria has won here and we've ceded our groundbreaking early work on this and China has taken the mantle. With all the talk about green energy I am not surprised, but chargrined that our current administration isn't pursuing this. Freakin' politics.
Thorium, though obviously radioactive, is much safer than uranium (not even close) and the US has the largest confirmed reserves in the world. Why aren't we throwing money at this? We could stop sending trillions and trillions of dollars overseas and make huge bank with the IP and manufacturing of the related technologies here. Huge ROI potential.
Another article about safe nuclear energy. Unfortunately it looks like the anti-nuclear hysteria has won here and we've ceded our groundbreaking early work on this and China has taken the mantle. With all the talk about green energy I am not surprised, but chargrined that our current administration isn't pursuing this. Freakin' politics.
Thorium, though obviously radioactive, is much safer than uranium (not even close) and the US has the largest confirmed reserves in the world. Why aren't we throwing money at this? We could stop sending trillions and trillions of dollars overseas and make huge bank with the IP and manufacturing of the related technologies here. Huge ROI potential.