RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-22 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
1:24 am Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Atthe risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin thisis a current article on the why

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-22 Thread John Clark
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:40 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A thorium, liquid salt reactor does make Pu239, and it gets a lot of it's energy from Pu239 fission. The difference is that it essentially burns the plutonium as fast at it's made. From

RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Quentin Anciaux Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:45 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't 2014-05-20 18:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke

RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:13 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/20/2014 11:45 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-05

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread John Clark
-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156 OK, point by point: the United States has tried to develop thorium as an energy source for some 50 years They sure didn't try very hard! The United States did stick some Thorium into conventional reactors that were never

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Ruquist
. It addresses them point by point. http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156 OK, point by point: the United States has tried to develop thorium as an energy source for some 50 years They sure didn't try very hard

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread John Clark
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:28 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: What about the waste tails he alludes to. A Thorium reactor only produces about 1% as much waste as a conventional reactor simply because Thorium has a atomic number of only 90 but

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-21 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, May 20, 2014 1:24 am Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Atthe risk of re-starting the Thorium wars lt;gringt

RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium. It addresses them point by point. http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
, May 19, 2014 10:25 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium

RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Quentin Anciaux Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 11:49 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't 2014-05-20 8:28 GMT+02:00 'Chris de Morsella

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't 2014-05-20 8:28 GMT+02:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com: What about the waste tails he alludes to. I had not known that they had actually constructed and tested U233 bombs – had always

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2014 11:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: These are valid criticisms that are very much not administrative nature but cut right to the core [pun intended] of a world in which a multitude of thorium U233 breeder reactors proliferate widely. There is a risk that this unintentionally leads to

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-05-20 18:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: On 5/19/2014 11:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: These are valid criticisms that are very much not administrative nature but cut right to the core [pun intended] of a world in which a multitude of thorium U233 breeder reactors

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread John Mikes
: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium. It addresses them point by point. http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156 A mishmash of criticism most of which have to do with administrative and poltical mistakes or which

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread meekerdb
On 5/20/2014 11:45 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-05-20 18:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net: On 5/19/2014 11:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: These are valid criticisms that are very much not administrative nature but cut right to the core

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-20 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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RE: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-19 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium. It addresses them point by point. http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group

Re: Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn't

2014-05-19 Thread meekerdb
On 5/19/2014 9:30 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: At the risk of re-starting the Thorium wars grin this is a current article on the why NOTS of Thorium. It addresses them point by point. http://thebulletin.org/thorium-wonder-fuel-wasnt7156 A mishmash of criticism most

Re: No Wonder philosophers suck!

2013-01-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/30/2013 2:38 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: A great post Stephen thanks Well, in fact what the post says is that the ones that sucks are the logical positivists (and their dwarfs, the scientists), who took over the power in Modernland. I take this phrase, which IMHO describes very well

Re: No Wonder philosophers suck!

2013-01-30 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Even Wittgenstein, who invented logical positivism, soon abandoned it and spent the rest of his life showing why it doesn't work. - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-30, 00:32:44 Subject: No Wonder

Re: No Wonder philosophers suck!

2013-01-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Jan 2013, at 08:38, Alberto G. Corona wrote: A great post Stephen thanks Well, in fact what the post says is that the ones that sucks are the logical positivists (and their dwarfs, the scientists), who took over the power in Modernland. I take this phrase, which IMHO describes

Re: No Wonder philosophers suck!

2013-01-29 Thread Alberto G. Corona
A great post Stephen thanks Well, in fact what the post says is that the ones that sucks are the logical positivists (and their dwarfs, the scientists), who took over the power in Modernland. I take this phrase, which IMHO describes very well what is inside of what In fact, the opposite is

Wonder

2012-08-17 Thread Roger
Hi meekerdb A computer can not experience the wonder produced by the night sky, for example. Roger , rclo...@verizon.net 8/17/2012 Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb

Re: Wonder

2012-08-17 Thread meekerdb
On 8/17/2012 10:18 AM, Roger wrote: Hi meekerdb A computer can not experience the wonder produced by the night sky, for example. Many assertions...no proofs. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send