Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium

[CrazyMedic]

well it may work if we are gonna put thorium in the hands of the average joe because some red neck is gonna figure out you can make a giant shower of doom, I might be thinking of something else.

...What? i dont know what a Giant Shower of Doom is. BUT I WANT ONE NOW!!!

From what I understand Thorium was what destroyed the Hindenburg(according my friend who got it from mythbusters)but basically if it is heated it produces a shower of sparks.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

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Does it say anything about how long it takes Thorium to reform? As if we all used Uranium we would all eventually run out of that with increased energy needs.

OT: I personally think for just use on this planet we should use things that are actually 100% renewable and not ores that will probably eventually run out as we overmine them to meet our ever growing energy needs.

i agree. we should move to renewable's. unfortunately for us the tech isnt there for us to run our grind on renewable's as all the tech is incredibly inefficient.

It only takes about 5 years for a windfarm to start making a profit and they last for about 20 something years. I know that they aren't great but in conjuction they would work fine and just ignoring them isn't going to get them more efficient. Although Solar panels can take up to 20 years to start making a profit on them.

I do agree that they aren't 100% but sitting on our arse and letting greedy oil companies buy up patents for alternative fuels and energy sources is morally wrong.