Motherboard TV: The Thorium Dream

Motherboard's 30-minute film on the grassroots movement to make thorium nuclear power a reality. Read more: http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/11/9/motherboard-tv-the-thorium-dream

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Science & Technology

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• thorium
• nuclear
• atomic
• energy
• alternative energy
• plutonium
• history
• science
• molten salt reactor
• documentary
• vice
• kirk sorensen
• teac
• Nuclear Reactor
• Nuclear Weapon
• global warming
• climate change
• coal
• oil
• gas
• wind
• renewable energy
• china
• india
• atom
• alt

[IntarwebUser]

Too much, "This could save the world!" and not enough technical information.

[manfries]

who in the hell disliked this, what a bunch of fools

[22ness0hayden]

@howlinman801 The thing is, most of us have heard it all before. Like the opening lines of the doco we were promised never ending electricity back in the 60s. The Queen of England promised electricity "too cheap to meter", while back in reality a new term has been coined "fuel poverty". I don't believe there's a fuel crisis either, or that carbon emissions are causing problems. It's all spin by people with vested interests.

[RarelyEvil]

I know this is a pro-thorium documentary, but I still want to hear the downsides.

[RDELAPLAZA]

@howlinman801 you watch but don't see, you hear but don't listen?... did you see this documentary? check from 13:45 to 14:15 aprox : A reactor was already built and worked for more than 6000 hours AT FULL POWER... then Nixon and lobyists friends decided that it will kill big oil and big carbon thermoelectric and step into some guys BIG PROFITS so they kill the project...

[howlinman801]

@rstevewarmorycom

I agree your proposal to drive electric vehicles, grow vertical gardens, and such. However, solar, wind, and geothermal only generate power in places where there is sun, wind, and geothermal vents. Now I think everyone should have some solar panels on their roof so supplement their energy needs and take some strain off the grid. But that's all these technologies are, supplements. I'm live in the NW, and it's cloudy most of the year, it's also not very windy either...

[howlinman801]

@rstevewarmorycom

I'm actually interested in what your views are towards LFTR. Obviously there is going to be a fly in the ointment (as there is with everything) but since you're a physicist I'd like to hear some of your thoughts. I'm a chemist and have never worked in the field of nuclear energy, just researched it. I'm curious though, you say you almost got hired to run a LFTR? To my knowledge none have been constructed in the U.S.

[matchesburn]

Why do I have the feeling that that asshat with the goggles at 16:36 probably has a cell phone in his pocket and an Apple laptop and iPad in his backpack?

That said, I'm a fan of nuclear power. LWR, breeder reactors, thorium, plutonium, uranium. Whatever. They all work well. And, yes, Indian Point is FAR past its prime. Close it and open a new one that will last another 50 years without hurting of killing anyone.

[OperationCrossroad]

Thorium is the new fire.

If we make this happen, the coal industry is as good as dead.

[BlindPlague]

There is a solar warrior, anti-thorium troll trying to be the loudest in the comments

[Just1Spark]

watch?feature=player_embedded&­v=P9M__yYbsZ4#! <-----More information on LFT Reactors