Hi im Frankie, the film maker responsible for The Good Reactor. Thanks for your comments. We are trying to enter this topic into the energy crisis debate and it sounds like people really have strong opinions on whether or not thorium is a viable option for the future. I invite you to come along to our website highlighted above in the show more section for more info on the film. Thanks.
Everyone, EVERYONE should launch themselves into Thorium full-blast right NOW. There's no way that humanity will ever use less energy, it's just not in our nature.
Solar, wind, and geothermal are already at high levels of development and do not require a rare resource to even start research. I'm not denying that Thorium wont be a fuel source during the transition, but it has the same fundamental problems of fossil fuels. Also remember fossil fuels are found throughout the globe, i.e in every country, thorium has large deposits in specific countries, I imagine this would make the rest of the world dependent on their generosity.
@spiltmilkmaniac What about the problem that wind and solar require large amounts of rare earth minerals that are always found with thorium? Using thorium itself would be far more efficient than the accompanying rare earth minerals to build wind and solar farms. Wind and solar installations also have a limited operating life so new rare earth minerals would be required to maintain their infrastructure.
Are we really going to do this again ? Start another energy infrastructure on a finite (albeit abundant) resource ? Thorium energy will only become widespread and economical if it is made open source and the process becomes extremely simple. Solar, Wind and Geothermal - these are renewable i.e they'll never run out, can we please just focus on these ?
@spiltmilkmaniac We need a cleaner way than oil and coal. This is the substitution. We cannot go straight in to solar, wind, and geothermal due to the fact it will take massive amounts of time to fully develop and costly. Everyone is trying to find better ways to ween off of coal and gas and then to worry about the renewable resources.
I lold at Norway having an estimated 1 million tonnes of throrium.... strong bullshit propaganda. Australia is the nation with the probable most and thats only around 400 000 tonnes.
@xxxlilxjayxxx not sure if your serious.... same website as you just
/wiki/Thorium..... look in reserves section....all this is, is some blatant propaganda which harms the actual validity of using thorium as a great energy source
@Arsenalrobert from wiki: " ...are subjective, to the variability in the quality of the data, a lot of which is old and incomplete." The data you look at is old, there has not been enough research on this area I believe. ..
Hey the-good-reactor people... I assume you're trying to hide this trailer from YouTube search results? I mean I tried searching for "The Good Reactor" and could NOT find it except on your website. If you DO want it findable, please update the title and description to include spaced out spelling.
2012 for norway... america jumps us in desperate search of thorium?
Joh447 1 month ago
@Joh447 Well maybe but we do have 100 years worth of thorium buried in Nevada so probably not 2012
Darkwizzrobe 3 weeks ago
Hi im Frankie, the film maker responsible for The Good Reactor. Thanks for your comments. We are trying to enter this topic into the energy crisis debate and it sounds like people really have strong opinions on whether or not thorium is a viable option for the future. I invite you to come along to our website highlighted above in the show more section for more info on the film. Thanks.
frankiefenton 1 month ago
@frankiefenton thorium documentary (dot) com
monstersbride 1 month ago
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frankiefenton 1 month ago
Everyone, EVERYONE should launch themselves into Thorium full-blast right NOW. There's no way that humanity will ever use less energy, it's just not in our nature.
InuvikPhil 2 months ago
@lateowlearlybird
Solar, wind, and geothermal are already at high levels of development and do not require a rare resource to even start research. I'm not denying that Thorium wont be a fuel source during the transition, but it has the same fundamental problems of fossil fuels. Also remember fossil fuels are found throughout the globe, i.e in every country, thorium has large deposits in specific countries, I imagine this would make the rest of the world dependent on their generosity.
spiltmilkmaniac 2 months ago
@spiltmilkmaniac What about the problem that wind and solar require large amounts of rare earth minerals that are always found with thorium? Using thorium itself would be far more efficient than the accompanying rare earth minerals to build wind and solar farms. Wind and solar installations also have a limited operating life so new rare earth minerals would be required to maintain their infrastructure.
hallezb 1 month ago
Are we really going to do this again ? Start another energy infrastructure on a finite (albeit abundant) resource ? Thorium energy will only become widespread and economical if it is made open source and the process becomes extremely simple. Solar, Wind and Geothermal - these are renewable i.e they'll never run out, can we please just focus on these ?
spiltmilkmaniac 2 months ago
@spiltmilkmaniac We need a cleaner way than oil and coal. This is the substitution. We cannot go straight in to solar, wind, and geothermal due to the fact it will take massive amounts of time to fully develop and costly. Everyone is trying to find better ways to ween off of coal and gas and then to worry about the renewable resources.
lateowlearlybird 2 months ago
now thats the truth
RipstickRuler28 2 months ago
NORWAY FTW!
kjakur 2 months ago
/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4
bballscott1818 2 months ago
Watch this video. Pretty informative on Thorium and the basics of what they are trying to do.
bballscott1818 2 months ago
I lold at Norway having an estimated 1 million tonnes of throrium.... strong bullshit propaganda. Australia is the nation with the probable most and thats only around 400 000 tonnes.
Arsenalrobert 2 months ago
@Arsenalrobert it's 3 times more abundant than tin according to wiki. what's your source?
xxxlilxjayxxx 2 months ago
@xxxlilxjayxxx not sure if your serious.... same website as you just
/wiki/Thorium..... look in reserves section....all this is, is some blatant propaganda which harms the actual validity of using thorium as a great energy source
Arsenalrobert 2 months ago
@Arsenalrobert from wiki: " ...are subjective, to the variability in the quality of the data, a lot of which is old and incomplete." The data you look at is old, there has not been enough research on this area I believe. ..
xnordic 2 months ago
what is the name of the song in this video?
dstnyskr 2 months ago
Hey the-good-reactor people... I assume you're trying to hide this trailer from YouTube search results? I mean I tried searching for "The Good Reactor" and could NOT find it except on your website. If you DO want it findable, please update the title and description to include spaced out spelling.
gordonmcdowell 2 months ago