Thorium.

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http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Thorium is an abundant material which can be transformed into massive quantities of energy. To do so efficiently requires a very different nuclear reactor than the kind we use today- Not one that uses solid fuel rods, but a reactor in which the fuel is kept in a liquid state. Not one that uses pressurized water as a coolant, but a reactor that uses chemically stable molten salts. Such a reactor is called a "Molten Salt Reactor". Many different configurations are possible. Some of these configurations can harness Thorium very efficiently. This video explores the attributes of Molten Salt Reactors. Why are they compelling? And why do many people (including myself) see them as the only economical way of fully harnessing ALL our nuclear fuels... including Thorium. This video has been under development since 2012. I hope it conveys to you why I personally find Molten Salt Reactors so compelling, as do the many volunteers and supporters who helped create it. Much of the footage was shot by volunteers. All music was created by: http://kilowattsmusic.com To support this project, please visit: https://patreon.com/thorium Entities pursuing Molten Salt Reactors are... Flibe Energy - http://flibe-energy.com/ Terrestrial Energy - http://terrestrialenergy.com/ Moltex Energy - http://www.moltexenergy.com/ ThorCon Power - http://thorconpower.com/ Transatomic - http://www.transatomicpower.com/ Seaborg - http://seaborg.co/ Copenhagen Atomics - http://www.copenhagenatomics.com/ TerraPower - http://terrapower.com/ Bhabha Atomic Research Centre - http://www.barc.gov.in/ Chinese Academy of Sciences - http://english.cas.cn/ Regular Thorium conferences are organized by: http://thoriumenergyalliance.com/ http://thoriumenergyworld.com/ Table of Contents 0:00:00 Space 0:17:29 Constraints 0:28:22 Coolants 0:40:15 MSRE 0:48:54 Earth 0:59:46 Thorium 1:22:03 LFTR 1:36:13 Revolution 1:44:58 Forward 1:58:11 ROEI 2:05:41 Beginning 2:08:36 History 2:38:59 Dowtherm 2:47:57 Salt 2:51:44 Pebbles 3:06:07 India 3:18:44 Caldicott 3:35:55 Fission 3:56:22 Spectrum 4:04:25 Chemistry 4:12:51 Turbine 4:22:27 Waste 4:40:15 Decommission 4:54:39 Candlelight 5:13:06 Facts 5:26:08 Future 5:55:39 Pitches 5:56:17 Terrestrial 6:08:33 ThorCon 6:11:45 Flibe 6:20:51 End 6:25:53 Credits Some of this footage is remixed from non-MSR related sources, to help explain the importance of energy for both space exploration and everyday life here on Earth. Most prominently... Pandora's Promise - https://youtu.be/bDw3ET3zqxk Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson - https://youtu.be/Pun76NZMjCk Dr. Robert Zubrin - https://youtu.be/EKQSijn9FBs Mars Underground - https://youtu.be/tcTZvNLL0-w Andy Weir & Adam Savage - https://youtu.be/5SemyzKgaUU Periodic Table Videos - https://youtube.com/channel/UCtESv1e7ntJaLJYKIO1FoYw

Comments

  1. An outstanding documentary!
  2. So let's have India be the first test site.
    Let's get this party started
  3. watched the whole thing. id watch another. you did a great job editing this. took a few days to watch the whole thing. thank you
  4. What is this
  5. This video is incredible! I am now almost burdened by having TOO much information. I think I heard you mention in this video something about elevator pitches. Any chance you can develop a series of "elevator speeches" that us aspiring Thorium evangelists can try to almost memorize?
  6. mfw george lucas at 4:36:18
  7. I BRING A MESSAGE FROM RICHRAY! HE SAYS TO JOIN CANDID!
  8. Omg at 7:00:00 theres a picture of idubbbz
  9. Great work! Thank you so much for doing all of this. I have spoken with everyone I know about this. I do have one suggestion though: I find (and many others I have shown your material to) that your narration is excessively measured and slow and comes across very awkward, off-putting, and distracting. It would flow better to have a more natural cadence to your speech.

    Thanks again for all the hard work! Next time I'm in Calgary I'd love to buy you a coffee :).
  10. that's really awesome that you found video footage of the MSRE operating!!
  11. Awesome documentary!! spent two days watching it and all i can say is wow!!
  12. It is great to see many permutations that can be derived from the "Thorium" project. My favorite ReMix would be: "The Chemical Kidney":

    2:11:18 - 2:13:36
    and
    2:18:14 - 2:27:31
    and
    4:03:17 - 4:22:07
    and
    6:11:44 - 6:11:58
  13. 6 and a half hours of gold! Thanks Gordon!
  14. Holy Schmoly Batman, that Helen Caldicott has a Man chip on her shoulder... Too Sad.... She looses all credibility out side of her element with her deceptions. Candles on Mars? What a great idea! Gives our Explorers/Planetary Settlers about .0000001 SOLS of Energy. Brilliant!!! So! with 12 AP1000 Westinghouse sites on order in China, the battle in the US for Molton Salt, will be against our own Energy commission to permit any MSR, LFTR aka FLIBE within the continental US. The US Govt wants China to do it. Prove it, then we the US will build it, but only if US Energy says we can and the profits merritt the technology.
    Funds to decommission all current US "Breeder" Energy Production, already distributed for the next 25 years...Sad...Not one Red Cent in New Discovery...Seems Natural Gas is the answer for now.
    I am also sure Fossil energy is not and will not capitulate to Liquid Fuel Reactors without a fight.
    There in-lies the RUB!!! Crap, MSR's it was a Great Idea...
    Check out Bill Gates proposal, he's got some traction with his TerraPower...Its still a Low Carbon emitter. Bummer...
    As of 2017 MSR aka LFTR is CLEAN with no residuals and fully sustainable... The Discovery and successful Test of Fluid Fuel Reactors was back in 1958... Sometimes people, correction Government just gets in the peoples way.
    TY Gordon:)
  15. No way, that's George Lucas @ 4:36:18
  16. https://youtu.be/2oK6Rs6yFsM?t=16580
    Is it George Lucas passing by casually? :D
  17. More information regarding the dangerously misleading "NYAS" Chernobyl report that Dr Caldicott and countless other campaigners constantly rely on to triumphantly assert a million deaths is here https://www.scribd.com/document/63975511/Critique-of-New-York-Academy-of-Sciences-for-Publishing-Non-Science-about-Chernobyl
  18. wth where is it? 2007 really fake news?
  19. man !!! eye opener ...every sec of 6 hrs worth it