Kirk Sorensen - Introduction to Flibe Energy @ TEAC3

Presented at the 3rd Thorium Energy Alliance Conference, in Washington DC. Kirk Sorensen & Kirk Dorius announce creation of Flibe Energy, a company devoted to making energy from thorium a reality, via the Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR).

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ is a doc created (in part) from this footage. Watch "LFTR in 5 Minutes - THORIUM REMIX 2011" at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4

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Science & Technology

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• thorium
• Kirk Sorensen
• liquid
• fluoride
• reactor
• LFTR
• MSR
• Molten
• Salt
• Reactor
• cheap
• energy
• nuclear
• flibe
• salts
• Kirk Dorius

[gordonmcdowell]

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[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 :)

[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.

[OperationCrossroad]

Is it possible for a private individual to buy shares of this company at this point in time?

[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.