On 9/15/2012 11:16 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote:
That should have happened from the get go (thorium reactors),
except that a bomb cannot be made from thorium.
Hi Richard,
I noticed that as well. It seems that the more uses something has
the more likely it is to happen.
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:11 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
I'm giving a talk Monday on why we should be building molten-salt thorium
reactors to replace the burning of fossil fuels for electrical power.
Brent,
That sounds awesome. Where will this talk be, will the presentation be put
online?
I think the move from fossil fuels to Thorium reactors will have a
stabilizing effect on world politics. The U.S. would have little interest
in the middle east if not for its concern over energy resources. There is
10X the energy in the Thorium contained in coal than we get from burning it,
and the release of radioactive Thorium (from burning coal) leads to the
deaths of untold thousands each year.
I think if humanity can survive the next 50 years without destroying
ourselves, or setting ourselves back into a new dark age, we will be in the
clear, having surpassed what Carl Sagan called a civilizations technological
adolescence. In 50 years from now, it is likely (given current trends) that
the computational power necessary to emulate a human brain will be very
cheap and very efficient (more efficient than our current brains which
require 20 watts of food energy).
Yet, if we can power brains directly with energy (bypassing the
photosynthesis cycle), we move from needing 1 acre of farmland per person,
to a 6 by 6 inch square worth of sunlight to power each human brain.
Instead of using 40% of the Earth's photosynthetic capacity, we would use a
fraction of a percent, and we would live richer lives than any billionaire
does today: we could experience anything that anyone might imagine.
Regenerative medicine (the ability to re-grow tissues and organs) is
predicted to become mainstream by 2025, so those that can survive the next
10 - 15 years could survive for eons.
Jason
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