Kirk Sorensen @ PROTOSPACE on Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors

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__y...

When arriving in Calgary to present at TEDxYYC, Kirk Sorensen was immediately raced from his late arrival flight to MRU for a talk... and then straight to his second talk at PROTOSPACE!

http://protospace.ca

At PROTOSPACE, Kirk reviewed his interest in space, his work for NASA and his introduction to liquid fueled reactors. The talk itself ends with a long Q&A period, then a casual conversation about how reactor development could be crowdsourced.

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[Francisco Sanmarco]

Great stuff people. My two cents: if it is already being built in India/China (or if it's actually already working as KarthikSoun mentioned) the focus should be on getting the knowledge about the implementation from them, right? May sound naive, but if possible, it seems much simpler and efficient to hire an experienced Indian engineer (or many) who has already worked on the construction of one of these, than trial/error several times before a working solution is found.

[gordonmcdowell]

The Indian project is using solid fuel so it is a different type of Thorium reactor. The Chinese ARE likely building exactly what we need here, but their stated goal is to secure the IP / patents on as much of the surrounding technology as possible. Right now the problem isn't so much lack of knowledge/skill as lack of funds/action.

[OptimusGonzoo]

So was the EM fuel salt pump prototype successful?

[gordonmcdowell]

I've only been at the space a couple times since and don't think it is an active project. I personally have been putting all my effort into editing LFTR footage (at expense of Protospace time) so haven't helped out.

[jonhdoehe1]

Great lecture! It's a shame big business and politics is hampering development of this technology for stupid selfish reasons. Anyone with the education and desire to work on this should give China or India a call, because nobody is going to work on this in the western world until all the U235 and fossil fuels are used up.

[MrDanP1]

GordonMcDowell and Chelsea Pratchett...

I appreciate you posting these and getting the word out. LFTR needs to be popularized if we are going to get as many forms of sustainable energy investigated as possible. But, how many times have you guys posted re-hashed videos of these same talks to youtube? I will probably end up listening to all over the spring and upcoming summer...but you guys posted a lot..................