On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *John Clark > *Sent:* Monday, March 31, 2014 8:48 AM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Climate models > > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > There is something around fifty million tons of pure gold dissolved in > the world's oceans > That's nice but Uranium is far far more common than Gold and Thorium is much more common than Uranium, in fact it's almost twice as common as Tin. And Thorium is easier to extract from its ore than Uranium. And at best a (non-breeder) Uranium reactor only uses .7% of its fuel (and usually less than that) because it can only get energy from the rare U235 isotope; but natural Thorium has only one isotope and a Thorium reactor can use 100% of it. > > Most of the Thorium in the earth's crust is not recoverable.... And yet > you speak of it as if it were. Why John? Isn't that dishonest. > High quality ore that can approach 50% Thorium and if at random you picked one cubic meter of rock anywhere in the Earth's crust you would find about 12 grams of Thorium in it. if placed in a liquid Thorium reactor 12 grams would produce the energy equivalent of 37 tons of coal, enough to power one person's western middle class lifestyle for about a decade. One ton of Thorium contains as much energy as 3 million tons of coal so you'd need 2 thousand tons of Thorium to equal coal. The U.S.Geological Survey's latest estimate says that one company, Thorium Energy Inc, has 915,000 tons of thorium reserves in Idaho and Montana. That alone could replace coal for about 450 years, and that's just from the claims that one company has in 2 states. And Norway has as much Thorium as the entire USA, and Australia about twice as much, and India has about 3 times as much. And we've already discovered Thorium deposits on the Moon and Mars. It would only take 2000 tons of Thorium to equal the energy in 6 billion tons of coal that the world uses each year. There is 120 TRILLION tons of Thorium in the earth's crust and if the world needs 10 times as much energy as we get from just coal then we will run out of Thorium in the crust of this planet in 6 billion years. > Global liquid petroleum has peaked and is in decline > That is certainly true in any universe uncontaminated by facts. John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
