Kirk Sorensen - Introduction to Flibe Energy @ TEAC3

[ufoengines]

Just how small could this reactor be made if you used a free piston stirling engine in the design?

Small enought to be installed in a private home's basement so folks could live off the grid ?

[spurcross]

This is so exciting to see but a smart man always looks for the vulnerable side. What if someone flies an airplane into one? Will it shower the region in alpha particles and a pulse of gamma rays? I'm not dissing this at all. I love it. I'm just looking out for all of us. that's all.

Can these things be buried and still work?

Does the turbine create environmentally significant noise?

[OfficeThug]

Cool factoid: the production of Bismuth-213 will come from Thorium-229, which is an extremely useful isotope in and of itself. Physicists will need Thorium-229 to build nuclear clocks, which will allow them to check against ceasium clocks and see if universal constants change over time. If we can make enough of it, Th-229 will also be useful in nuclear isomer batteries capable of storing hundreds of thousands of times more energy than even the densest chemical batteries currently available.

[OfficeThug]

@OldSchoolSkill The LFTR was a freak accident reactor, it could have easily been overlooked in the 60s if the ORNL team never tried thorium in their MSR project. Thorium itself would still be nothing more than a plain old boring mildy radioactive metal if we'd never found out about how perfect its chemistry and nuclear physics were in FLiBe salts. It seems alien to us because we aren't used to the idea of a perfect fission reactor, designs that get 100% instead of 0.5% efficiency

[DeathAndMajesty]

People from the future they are. Financially support we must.

[sgrannel]

The "yellow coal" limit for thorium is 0.4 ppm and the average concentration in Earth's crust is estimated at 6-12 ppm. I'm glad to hear of the thorium effort. It's nice to see somebody doing something, but I'll believe the result when I see it. I can't formulate a business plan based on something which isn't available yet.

[MTL911Truth]

It's hilarious to think of how much Thorium will be worth in the future and how we currently consider it so useless that rare earth mining operations are hindered by sites that have "too much" thorium. I guess that's all part of the human story.

[rramosbaez]

I really want to work for them and make Thorium a reality. I thought I would have to go live in China once I graduated if I wanted to work with LFTR.

[gordonmcdowell]

I'm not sure I know what you mean. The promoted video might be partially determined by your past browsing habits... I don't see a promoted video when I'm logged in or logged out. Can you email me a screenshot? I am NOT running any ads... it is probably something out of my control, but I'd like to see what you're seeing.

[realtytour]

I noticed the "Promoted Video" on this page is for BP. That's another big problem that needs to be dealt with.

[therealericmeyer]

NASA's going to go bananas when Kirk gives them 15 kg of U-238!

[Agatonsax76]

In the future Kirk Sorensen will get the Nobel Peace Price and earn it even more than Nelson Mandela.

[zassounotsukushi]

4:21 Wait wait what?! You're going to put graphite in the core of a 2-fluid reactor?

The 2-fluid reactor is good because it's a fast reactor. Yes, we all know that Thorium is unique in that it can be bred with thermal neutrons, but what credible design have people entertained for 2-fluid thermal reactor? It's just... I mean... the thermal neutrons don't have sufficient path length to leak out and hit Thorium.

Am I wrong?

[GrinaTech]

Terrific! The many benefits make this a no brainer, and did I see one or two REM's as a byproduct? With the REM squeeze this can be a catalyst to create thousands of jobs. Add the right mix of industrial projects, it could be hundreds of thousands of jobs. Keep up the great work! Absolutely Awesome!

[ExtremeBlastoise]

GO FLIBE, WOOOOOOOOO

[lyzedpara]

your future nobel prize winner, ladies and gentlemen

[akittel303]

unfortunately, knowing america, we wont use this until the country is in crisis and profits&politics have to be put aside.

[OfficeThug]

Why try to make gold from lead at a huge energy cost, when you can make Palladium, Ruthenium, Neodynium, Xenon, Pu-238, and Bi-213 from thorium while solving the looming energy crisis?

That's LFTR. Wiping the floor with every other method of producing electricity all while transmuting "waste" worth more than gold.

[intellectable]

Flibe sounds like a great investment.

Kirk Sorensen has such a commanding voice and driven personality.

Sorensen's visions of the age of Thorium is the infrastructure projects that governments need to back to give vital boost to the economy and aging grid.

I personally would invest in a Flibe IPO :)

[gregreman]

Cheaper neodymium means cheaper Maglev's. Whoooooosh! Damm LFTR is cool

[zavatone]

@gregreman Nice observation.

[TheZorch]

We need this technology today.

[malexsf]

Great presentation... but terrible editing. Pick an audio track and run with it, guys.

[OptimusGonzoo]

I can't like this video enough!

[therealericmeyer]

Great Presentation Kirk, Excellent editing Gordon. If only one of these would go Viral!

[sebek23b]

YEAH WELL DONE KIRK