Kirk Sorensen @ MRU on LFTR - Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ is a doc created (in part) from this footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__y...

When arriving in Calgary to present at TEDxYYC, Kirk Sorensen was immediately raced from his late arrival flight to MRU, where Brett McCollum had helped organize a lecture.

Kirk gave a brief overview of Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) and specifically Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR). Half of the time was spent fielding questions from the Calgary students.

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[jb678901]

The POTUS is surrounded by revolving door lobbyists in both the energy and military-industrial sectors...all HELL bent on preventing this approach from seeing the light of day. The only way a President is going to get briefed on this tech is if his/her young children bring a Youtube clip to his/her attention. In wish this were hyperbole.

[gordonmcdowell]

There's occasional online Q&A sessions where MSR notion could be bounced off him. I don't think an MSR question would get enough upvotes or retweets to be noticed without preparation and coordination. I'm not gonna coordinate that, but it is a strategy that hasn't been tried yet, in terms of getting POTUS attention directly.

[rasoros]

Will never happen.. as much as I like the presented ideas, this country doesn't take risks anymore. Expect a slow but inevitable meltdown of this country's core over the next 25 years.

[gordonmcdowell]

Agreed, without cold war less risk going on. But it will happen eventually. I'd like to think folks would try spread the word to help make it happen sooner rather than later. If you Google THORIUM PETITION that's one angle of attack. There's 2 big thorium non-profits out in the world, if you want to join. Richard Martin released SUPERFUEL a book, that's a handy thing to have on-hand for any people-of-influence you meet. I'm always looking for help to make TR2012.

[DancingSpiderman]

The new book describing Thorium as the ideal fuel is "SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future", by Richard Martin, which includes mention of Kirk Sorensen throughout. Excellent book.

[gordonmcdowell]

Am reading it now. Wonderful resource to have.

[arutixar]

I heard of this at the University I work at. A student was doing a project with this idea. If only the nuclear society would be a bit more enthusiastic about this. It might just work out. Else... Asia will have a head start....

[fingersoup]

Probably too much red tape involved - I hope someone would though.. Especially before China gets IP

[Caleb6543]

I'm curious about the strategy used here. What is the purpose of all the lectures and videos? Is it to create a groundswell of popular demand for this technology to pressure Washington into funding the project? If it is so simple, scalable and we have a proven design for key components, what is to stop someone from just building a garage sized reactor for experimentation? There are a lot of rich people around willing to spend money on wild ideas.

[Bruce miller]

Make carbon neutral gasoline? Are there better systems than the spark or compression piston engines?

[Bruce miller]

Will this video be "disappeared"? Will this man die in mysterious circumstances, soon? Can China's Thorium fissioning technologies be influenced, even stopped by U.S. energy interests? Chinese Thorium technologies to "Alter Global Energy Maps Forever"? Norway, India , Philippines, also seeking thorium technologies? Do we witness here the technology that has the potential to neuter the U.S. "Petro-Dollar's" grip or "monopoly" of Oil/Energy in this world? Does China's Intelligentsia care?