energy tech is hot, but did Bill Gates forget something?
March 23, 2012 1:37 PM   Subscribe

Thorium, MSR, LFTR, Back in the early sisxties Nixon shut down a very interesting energy technology that promises safety, and even the capacity to consume nuclear waste in the process! google it, there's lots on G+, there is a viable energy tech and the Chinese are devoting a load of work on it, they plan to lock up IP on it too, something that was developed in America and has been proven reliable!
posted by daveeza (23 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: If there is something worth posting about here, it needs to be framed a whole lot better than this. -- cortex



 
......the fuck?
posted by schmod at 1:39 PM on March 23, 2012


Nixon did really know how to suck the energy out of a room.
posted by Jahaza at 1:41 PM on March 23, 2012 [1 favorite]


ALSO GOOGLE RON PAUL
posted by saladin at 1:41 PM on March 23, 2012 [4 favorites]


Metafilter: google it
posted by thecjm at 1:41 PM on March 23, 2012 [2 favorites]


"Google it"? There are at least half a dozen things wrong with this FPP.
posted by Edgewise at 1:41 PM on March 23, 2012 [1 favorite]


Weird is a renewable resource.
posted by joe lisboa at 1:42 PM on March 23, 2012 [2 favorites]


a+ post
posted by mikeh at 1:42 PM on March 23, 2012


How could Nixon kill the program in the EARLY 60s? He didn't become president until the LATE 60s.
posted by buggzzee23 at 1:43 PM on March 23, 2012


Thorium is to conventional nuclear energy as Google + is to Facebook.
posted by KokuRyu at 1:43 PM on March 23, 2012


How could Nixon kill the program in the EARLY 60s? He didn't become president until the LATE 60s.

DUN DUN DUN!
posted by joe lisboa at 1:43 PM on March 23, 2012


How could Nixon kill the program in the EARLY 60s? He didn't become president until the LATE 60s.

Google it.
posted by KokuRyu at 1:43 PM on March 23, 2012 [4 favorites]


oh man google it should be a "let me google that for you" link
posted by nathancaswell at 1:43 PM on March 23, 2012


Maybe Vice President Nixon killed it? Maybe President Nixon traveled back in time and killed its parents?
posted by Jahaza at 1:44 PM on March 23, 2012 [2 favorites]


(forgot the link)
posted by joe lisboa at 1:45 PM on March 23, 2012


Forget it, Gates. Your billions in charity will never wash away the sin of Windows Vista.
posted by Trurl at 1:45 PM on March 23, 2012


what is this i don't even
posted by monju_bosatsu at 1:46 PM on March 23, 2012


Jahaza

Based on my exhaustive survey of the first four years of the Doonesbury comic strip, Nixon was certainly capable of it.
posted by The Confessor at 1:46 PM on March 23, 2012


Did they finally fix the Markovfilter?
posted by leotrotsky at 1:46 PM on March 23, 2012


Thorium?? But I hardly know him! Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Try the word salad!
posted by theodolite at 1:46 PM on March 23, 2012


Thorium reactors are a staple of Slashdot discussions on nuclear energy, and it's the same thing: "WE HAVE A SAFE MODEL/FUEL/DESIGN WHY AREN'T WE DOING THIS?"

Whenever I've seen apparently qualified nuclear engineers discuss it, it comes down to this: Yes, on paper it looks like a good approach, and has lots to recommend it, but at this point it's fifty years behind the uranium fuel cycle/plant design world, and that means missing 50 years of "shit, we totally didn't know that." A widespread switch to thorium now wouldn't be a step up from current fuel and designs, it would be a step fifty years back, because no one expects it to be as straightforward as it is on paper.

It's totally worth researching. It's not a fix to current issues with nuclear power.
posted by fatbird at 1:46 PM on March 23, 2012


All metafilter FPPs are now mandated to be declarative sentences followed by "Google it!"That being said thorium isnt such a bad idea in theory, but no one has really ever done anything with it.
posted by KeSetAffinityThread at 1:47 PM on March 23, 2012


the public must learn about chemtrails! do your research on youtube!
posted by crayz at 1:47 PM on March 23, 2012


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posted by MrMoonPie at 1:47 PM on March 23, 2012 [3 favorites]


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