Generate Huge Amounts of Electricity Forever?

Local view: We can’t power 21st century with 20th-century thinkingSuppose there was a way to generate huge amounts of electricity almost forever with a cheap, plentiful source without making carbon dioxide or hardly any nuclear waste.

By: George Erickson, Duluth News Tribune~

Suppose there was a way to generate huge amounts of electricity almost forever with a cheap, plentiful source without making carbon dioxide or hardly any nuclear waste.

Suppose that this marvel couldn’t explode because it makes nothing flammable, shuts down automatically if something goes wrong, doesn’t need water for cooling, can consume stored nuclear waste, produces 1 percent as much waste as current reactors, has been successfully tested, is super safe and more efficient than fossil fuels, and can bring energy independence from Mideast oil.

This miracle is the Molten-Salt Reactor, or MSR, which ran for 22,000 hours in the 1960s, and its cousin, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, or LFTR.

Unfortunately, we shelved both reactors, partly because they weren’t suited for making nuclear bombs.

Rare Earths Problem Could Have A Nuclear Solution

Rare Earths Problem Could Have A Nuclear Solution ~

By Llewellyn King
Posted on Mon, 30 March 2015 23:45 | 1

The 17 rare earth elements have energy supply by the throat. They are used in everything from oil refineries to solar and wind generators.

These rare earths are, as John Kutsch, director of the Thorium Energy Alliance, says, “the great multipliers.” They make metals stronger, generators more efficient, cell phones smaller, television sets sharper, and laptops lighter. They are, in their way, as important to modern manufacturing as energy.

Back in the days, the United States was a major supplier of rare earths -- with supplemental supplies coming from countries around the world, including Australia and Brazil. Today, 90 percent of the rare earths the world uses come from China.

Russia to Sign BRICS Pact on Science and Innovation

Russia to sign BRICS pact on science and innovation
March 22, 2015, 7:57 am


The BRICS Bank launched last year will fund infrastructure projects in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and challenge the dominance of the Western-led World Bank and the IMF [GCIS]

Russia is ready to ratify a science, innovation and technology cooperation pact prepared by the five BRICS nations, said a Russian government statement on Sunday.

“Russia jointly with its BRICS partners has prepared a draft Memorandum on Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovations Between the Governments of the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China and the South African Republic,” said the statement. The next BRICS Summit will be held in the Russian city of Ufa on July 9-10 this year.

Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies

A prioritized listing by the New Energy Congress of the very best clean energy technologies according to ten criteria including: renewable, environmentally friendly, affordable, credible, reliable, developed, safe, and not encumbered by politics of science. 

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