There is no reason for an "energy shortage"


BaalChatzaf

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There is no engineering or scientific reason for the U.S. or any other reasonably prosperous industrial nation to have an "energy shortage"

One possible path to energy independence and prosperity are thorium reactors.

Please see: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/is-thorium-the-nuclear-fuel-of-the-future

Thorium is cheaper and more plentiful than uranium. Thorium reactors produce no plutonium as a byproduct so do not provide a source for illegally produce nuclear weapons. Thorium has much less "waste" than uranium rectors and thorium

breeder reactors will make the "waste problem" totally manageable.

The only thing that would be blocking such a program would be government and the Cronies.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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There is no engineering or scientific reason for the U.S. or any other reasonably prosperous industrial nation to have an "energy shortage"

One possible path to energy independence and prosperity are thorium reactors.

Please see: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/is-thorium-the-nuclear-fuel-of-the-future

Thorium is cheaper and more plentiful than uranium. Thorium reactors produce no plutonium as a byproduct so do not provide a source for illegally produce nuclear weapons. Thorium has much less "waste" than uranium rectors and thorium

breeder reactors will make the "waste problem" totally manageable.

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor#Breeding_basics

and "http://www.youtube.com/embed/N2vzotsvvkw?

The only thing that would be blocking such a program would be government and the Cronies.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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Language question.

From the video: "This tube is 100,000 times smaller than the width of one of your hairs."

I understand how something can be 100,000 times larger, but how can something be 100,000 times smaller? Doesn't "times" indicate the act of multiplication, whereas if we are speaking of smallness, would we not be dealing in fractions and thus division?

Therefore: "This tube is one one hundred thousandth the width of one of your hairs."

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Language question.

From the video: "This tube is 100,000 times smaller than the width of one of your hairs."

I understand how something can be 100,000 times larger, but how can something be 100,000 times smaller? Doesn't "times" indicate the act of multiplication, whereas if we are speaking of smallness, would we not be dealing in fractions and thus division?

Therefore: "This tube is one one hundred thousandth the width of one of your hairs."

Multiply the width of a human hair by 1/100,000

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