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  • Posted by Kuyamarki 1 year ago. There are 9 posts. The latest reply is from Talis.
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    Hey Everyone, I found this interesting article on Sydney Morning Herald.

    I will provide some extracts from the article which may entice you to read.

    " China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium. "

    "If China's dash for thorium power succeeds, it will vastly alter the global energy landscape and may avert a calamitous conflict over resources as Asia's industrial revolutions clash head-on with the West's entrenched consumption."

    and last one "Chinese scientists claim that hazardous waste will be a thousand times less than with uranium. The system is inherently less prone to disaster."

    A possible new, cleaner and safer source of energy

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    it's not exactly a new idea, i remember an episode of "beyond 2000" where they actually suggested that we could have mini versions of these things in our cars and homes i think there may have also been a GE project that actually looked at the feasibility of it

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    Thanks Chris B..

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    Though I am wondering if the rest of the world will follow China's lead OR will the West play some evil card or create some campaign against it..
    I see a lot of small alternative energy companies beginning to open up and flourish. The technology is getting exponential better. And the more this happens the harder it is for the Elitist to control us. If we have free energy, we have freedom to create as much food as we need and as much water as we want..
    It's nice to day dream once in a while

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    i would be more excited to see the world move towards fules that do not produce any harmful bi-product such as the following which just blows my mind.

    http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/mit-creates-first-artificial-leaf-in-history/

    There is a talk buy the guy which is realy good.

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    Nice Article.. Technology is getting better and better.. it will probably get to the point where we have too many choices to pick from.. Which is good, so the Government cannot control how we get our energy.. Good Times Ahead

  7. wildwabbit

    This sounds really interesting, however there is one thing that grabs my attention. The article says that the bi-product or spent fuel is 1000's of times less toxic than spent uranium, but that still means that it is toxic? I'm not familiar with toxicity scales, 1000's of times less toxic than uranium could still be nasty? But sounds better than 100 times more toxic than mercury? (I' was meaning to google these question but am lazy atm..lol) will post again if I find some answers have been over googling obscure interests lately, starting to develop googlitis.

  8. wildwabbit

    Proponents claim that thorium fuel significantly reduces the volume, weight and long-term radiotoxicity of spent fuel. Using thorium in a nuclear reactor creates radioactive waste that proponents claim would only have to be isolated from the environment for 500 years, as opposed to the irradiated uranium-only fuel that remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. This claim is wrong. The fission of thorium creates long-lived fission products like technetium-99 (half-life over 200,000 years). While the mix of fission products is somewhat different than with uranium fuel, the same range of fission products is created. With or without reprocessing, these fission products have to be disposed of in a geologic repository.

    If the spent fuel is not reprocessed, thorium-232 is very-long lived (half-life:14 billion years) and its decay products will build up over time in the spent fuel. This will make the spent fuel quite radiotoxic, in addition to all the fission products in it. It should also be noted that inhalation of a unit of radioactivity of thorium-232 or thorium-228 (which is also present as a decay product of thorium-232) produces a far higher dose, especially to certain organs, than the inhalation of uranium containing the same amount of radioactivity. For instance, the bone surface dose from breathing an amount (mass) of insoluble thorium is about 200 times that of breathing the same mass of uranium.

    Finally, the use of thorium also creates waste at the front end of the fuel cycle. The radioactivity associated with these is expected to be considerably less than that associated with a comparable amount of uranium milling. However, mine wastes will pose long-term hazards, as in the case of uranium mining. There are also often hazardous non-radioactive metals in both thorium and uranium mill tailings.

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    China have a Thorium surplus as a result of purifying rare earth metals, and are hyping it up.
    Meanwhile for real energy breakthroughs : Hydrino (66 times calorific output than catalytic thermal drive requirement) Don't waste time persuing photosynthesis, unless it facilitates hydrogen resonance.

    The leaf works by electrolysis not photosynthesis ... Problem with overexcited internet ...
    Here are some 3rd party corrective comments :

    Has been done 10 years before. The leaf uses a doped silicon wafer acting as an electron donor to the catalyst. The "chemical reaction" is driven by electrons donated by the silicon solar cell.

    Did you know there were 3 previous "laws of gravity" before the current one? Each held for over 20 years before being proven patently false. The current one relies on any object with mass having some kind of unknown, unidentified force that causes an attraction to other objects. Previous ones identified this force as magnetism, electron repulsion, and of course, god's will.

    Perhaps the only truly unbreakable law is "There will never be any way to count the lives lost at the behest of the establishment." Science has an establishment that rivals politics and religion, don't be surprised to discover hundreds of overunity generators trashed because the establishment banged their truly enlightened designers over the head with a copy of the Laws of Thermodynamics.

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