TEDxYYC - Kirk Sorensen - Thorium

Kirk Sorensen discuss "Thorium" at TEDxYYC 2011.

Kirk Sorensen is founder of Flibe Energy and is an advocate for nuclear energy based on thorium and liquid-fluoride fuels. For five years he has authored the blog "Energy from Thorium" and helped grow an online community of thousands who support a renewed effort to develop thorium as an energy source. He is a 1999 graduate of Georgia Tech in aerospace engineering and is also a graduate student in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee. He has spoken publicly on thorium at the Manchester International Forum in 2009, at NASA's Green Energy Forum in 2008, and in several TechTalks at Google. He has been featured in Wired magazine, Machine Design magazine, the Economist, the UK Guardian and Telegraph newspapers, and on Russia Today.

He also taught nuclear engineering at Tennessee Technological University as a guest lecturer. He is active in nonprofit advocacy organizations such as the Thorium Energy Alliance and the International Thorium Energy Organization. He is married and has four small children.

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[Yankeeprepper]

Your world "rulers" and GOV's will never let this happen. This would lead to individual freedom and independence. Which is unacceptable.

[Darkozl]

@msgjsp oh my.. oh my oh my. Please go read some science material because I don't even know where to start.

[hyperforce]

@francophile59 If the reactor is self destructive, then how did they run a test reactor for with a low budget for 5 years back in the sixties? perhaps you should do more research on this yourself as well.

[Awesumjon]

I did a essay/presentation on this. Or at least the Thorium part. .

A+ !!

[francophile59]

Check the video The Solar Power Revolution -Here Comes the Sun -a documentary uploaded by GlobalClimateNews. You'll see how new concentrated Solar Panels are bringing in free electricity at the same price as fossil fuels in Spain and how Germany is now supplying electricity to nuclear powered France! Open your eyes it's your future at stake!

[francophile59]

Why is this guy reading everything. Listen to the talks on alternatives. They are all spontaneous,People who really know what they are doing. This guy is just a stooge for the nuclear industry that is dying out worldwide, trying to sneak by the back door with thorium. Thorium doesn't run without deadly plutonium. U.S. tried it in the 1960s, the salts are very corrosive and the metal pipes leak eventually. India tried it at Kakrapur and shut down twice. no way getting around the corroding salts!

[TheNotoriousYJX]

18 people failed high school physics.

[Instagaz]

he just signed up for a free assassination.

[BCEMCOCATb]

What he didn't say is that thorium reactors do not produce fuel for atomic bombs, so any country can have a nuclear energetics without raising suspicion of trying to build an atomic weapons.

One of the main reasons nuclear reactors appeared in the first place was to create plutonium for nuclear bombs. Not to solve energy problems.

[DukeDanceum]

Oil companies will never allow this.

[StoneCypher]

@daniel987878 Obama has been dumping enormous amounts of money into alternative energy, including the largest solar grant in history, and a billion dollar single grant to the National Ignition Facility (fusion research.)

[FPSabrina]

Holy shit. I want this.