Thorium!



From what I understand, the big problem with LFTR reactors is containing the molten thorium salt which is extremely corrosive and, with current available materials, requires replacing the containment vessels every 5 years or so which isn't realistic, cost wise.
 
^^^That just means that it doesn't benefit the oil and nuclear industry as they can't turn a big profit selling something that's so abundant. So no funds are put into material research and another breakthrough technology will never be developed.
 
Here is better and older idea and it does't make any waste
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSi-zSeS0_Y&feature=related]Nuclear Fusion Alternative Energy - YouTube[/ame]
 
LENR has this tech beat by a light year... But of course it's going to take a bunch of years for it to mature. Thanks for the video.
 
nickycakes said:
From what I understand, the big problem with LFTR reactors is containing the molten thorium salt which is extremely corrosive and, with current available materials, requires replacing the containment vessels every 5 years or so which isn't realistic, cost wise.
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A corrosion proof material - Hastalloy was invented quite some time ago to prevent the corrosion issue.
 
schockergd said:
LENR I believe requires He3 which is extremely costly. Not that it's a bad idea at all, it isn't.
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LENR has never been attempted with He3 to my knowledge. They have many, many "recipes" for what gives off the best power output ratios, and I believe the current winner was Deuterium-Argon. (Cheap as dirt.)

Powdered Nickle-Palladium is what Rossi and Dekaflion are using, but there may be some fraud going on there and I will stick to the official CERN findings for now.

What makes LENR so special is two-fold:

1. LENR has the highest energy output ratio ever discovered.

2. LENR is also highly portable, and they theorize future LENR power plants that fit in cell phones.

Since LENR is neither fission nor fusion tho, we'd better expect a long damn wait to get our hands on it... Too much R&D left to do.

I'd welcome some Thorium plants popping up in the meantime. Or even some Terrapower Inc. recycled-waste fission plants.
 
lukep said:
LENR has never been attempted with He3 to my knowledge. They have many, many "recipes" for what gives off the best power output ratios, and I believe the current winner was Deuterium-Argon. (Cheap as dirt.)

Powdered Nickle-Palladium is what Rossi and Dekaflion are using, but there may be some fraud going on there and I will stick to the official CERN findings for now.

What makes LENR so special is two-fold:

1. LENR has the highest energy output ratio ever discovered.

2. LENR is also highly portable, and they theorize future LENR power plants that fit in cell phones.

Since LENR is neither fission nor fusion tho, we'd better expect a long damn wait to get our hands on it... Too much R&D left to do.

I'd welcome some Thorium plants popping up in the meantime. Or even some Terrapower Inc. recycled-waste fission plants.
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Yeah , LENR is the future , and thorium would be a great thing to have in the meantime as well.

We'll see what happens though...........I guess.
 
schockergd said:
We'll see what happens though...........I guess.
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Just keep in mind that no dominant power source has EVER made it widespread without a government pumping trillions of dollars into infrastructure for it... Therefore even if a Thorium plant is perfected and cost-effective, the Govs of the world don't have a lot of incentive to replace Oil/Coal plants.
 
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