Thursday, April 6, 2017

MSR 3

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

"[I]f we could somehow harvest all the thorium in the Earth's crust and use it in this way, we could power civilization for tens of billions of years." 

It's clear that this efficient, reliable, safe, inexpensive energy source does work. Two prototypes of molten-salt reactors were built in the 1960's - and then closed.
Today in America certain entrepreneurs have the faith to make a big investment in this technology. Kirk Sorensen, a former NASA engineer, believes that thorium-powered MSR's will bring revolutionary change to the world's energy needs.
He started Flibe Energy to get this technology into production because  . . 
Here is Sorensen's TED Talk:

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