Energy From Thorium

[Separatist]

This seems like a massively awesome energy source. It is virtually unlimited, safer than traditional uranium nuclear, which is safe anyway, has positive byproducts use such as treating cancer, making gasoline and diesel fuel and desalinating water.

"Advocates say a golfball-sized amount of thorium provides a lifetime of energy and, while nuclear waste's standard half-life is 10,000 years, for thorium it's 300 years. Thorium is three times more abundant than uranium and has a million times more energy than coal."

http://www.thoriumdocumentary.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://energyfromthorium.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Separatist]

[Jason]

This seems like a massively awesome energy source. It is virtually unlimited, safer than traditional uranium nuclear, which is safe anyway, has positive byproducts use such as treating cancer, making gasoline and diesel fuel and desalinating water.

"Advocates say a golfball-sized amount of thorium provides a lifetime of energy and, while nuclear waste's standard half-life is 10,000 years, for thorium it's 300 years. Thorium is three times more abundant than uranium and has a million times more energy than coal."

http://www.thoriumdocumentary.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://energyfromthorium.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Know scientist who worked on that and where some massive deposits are....but will need some major changes first...

[Teancum]

Hi, there is a very related thread discussing thorium energy and active suppression of this topic here:

http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable ... ht=thorium

Very interesting thread. I especially thought this was good info:http://www.energeticforum.com/191653-post19.html

XCELERATOR EXCELERATOR is offline
Junior Member

Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 22
Affordability & Safety Issues
I agree...If these batteries are not affordable, or can be made affordable when mass-produced, they might be a non-issue for common consumers. But since they are based on Thorium, and less than 8 grams could power an automobile for a lifetime, I calculated that 48 grams would be required for a two bedroom house and 150,000 amps of appliances. Based on this I did some more math based on the cost of unprocessed, raw, Thorium (30 times more abundant than Uranium and current selling for $250 per kilogram) So less than $10 of Thorium is required to power a 2 bedroom house.

But we have to factor in a profit margin and the costs of processing, manufacturing, marketing, sales, packaging, and distribution. So now we are up to $500 MSRP for a battery powerful enough for a 2 bedroom house. Given only a 10 year life cycle that comes out to $50 per year. But the government would surely want to find a way to tax it and probably add a disposal fee as well so now we double the MSRP to $1,000. When factored into the cost of a new home or even retrofitted, what homeowner cannot afford this? Especially when you consider that the average American home owner spends $3,857 a year on electricity. So, the costs and savings are only an issue to those that now greatly profit from metered electricity, and unless they can control and monopolize the new scalable batteries, they will conspire with the oil companies to find devious ways to keep them off the market.

Getting back to Black Sheep Bill's OP, the attached chart shows that radiation is not an issue at all since we already use cellphones that give off the same amount of radiation and we would not be holding plasma batteries for our homes, cars, or laptops less than an inch away from our brains 2 hours of every day. But keep dreaming... the Pentagon will never let even see one of these batteries, much less use one in our cars. We will probably end up paying trough the nose to buy black market plasma batteries that will eventually be made in Russia or China.

Here are related links:

8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars | Libertarian News

Thorium Costs
Attached Thumbnails
-radiation_dose_chart-jpg
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone_share Share on reddit Share on pinterest_share Share on linkedin
__________________
The harder you work the luckier you get!
Last edited by EXCELERATOR; 05-05-2012 at 04:34 PM.

[Jason]

Once the control system goes down...there's a extensive list of technologies developed from early 1900's on that will likely become available...and our quality of life will accelerate very rapidly...BUT will take righteous living and a period of time to get the basic economic & physical support structure back in place.