<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">>> So why isn't anybody building thorium fueled power station(s)?<br></blockquote><div class="im">
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</div>> Because alternative fuelcycle MSR breeders are an unsolved problem.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And figuring out how to solve all our energy problems with the wind or bio fuel or solar is a solved problem?? Despite a very promising beginning virtually no money has been spent on Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) research in almost 45 years, much less Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR) that I'm talking about. You will never solve a problem if you don't even try.<br>
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> Nobody knows if they can be made to work eventually,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>And we do know we can make wind or bio fuel or solar work eventually??<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> but even if, we already know they would come too late to make a difference.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If it's all hopeless then what's the point of blabbing about it? Let us enjoy the little time we have left! And I still haven't heard if you've accepted my bet about the shortage of uranium, remember $1000 can buy a lot of cans of beans that will come in handy after the apocalypse. <br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> First question: does it work in practice? <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, it worked in 1969 at oak Ridge, and although there has been virtually no research on thorium reactors since then I imagine such things would still work.<br>
</div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> Second question, as this is a source of energy, what amount of reserves have worthwhile EROEI?</blockquote>
</div><div><br>As president of IHAS I happen to know that "EROEI" stands for Energy Return On Energy Invested, but I have to ask myself why would anybody use such a obscure acronym? Is it because he expects all his readers to already know what it means? I don't think so, I think it's an attempt to blind his potential critics with bafflegab. By the way, "IHAS" stands for "I Hate Acronyms Society". <br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark <br></div><div><h1 id="firstHeading" class="" lang="en"><span dir="auto"><br></span></h1><br><br> <br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div>