On 4/1/2014 10:56 AM, John Clark wrote:
> 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.
And it's not just thorium in the ground. In Southern CA there are huge mounds of thorium
rich tailings from the mining of rare earth elements for magnets.
Brent
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