Are We On the Verge of an Energy Breakthrough?

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17 points·wslh··8 comments

Yes, thorium is huge. I don't know what it has to do with the rossi e-cat though, which smells like a scam. I'm flagging this article for being a terrible source on information about either separately, and being a confusing jumble trying to combine the two topics.

I'm definitely skeptical of the e-cat but it sounds simple enough to build at home. But yes, the whole 'unexplained scientific pheonmena' combined with we can't show you the design because we don't have patents, combined with we can't get patents because the science is unproven sounds like the typical scam.

I just looked into it and it is a claim of cold fusion. They say they've been running successfully for two years now. fucking bullshit. Thorium is too important to be associated with this crap.

The really weird thing is it's at the end of the energy producing fusion chain, eg. nickel to copper / iron.

Lest you be lured into trusting Josephson's word because he is a Nobel laureate, be aware that he holds a number of views that are waaay out of the mainstream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_David_Josephson#Parapsych...

He actually sounds somewhat reasonable that we should examine the evidence more closely.

This is probably a scam: http://esowatch.com/en/index.php?title=Focardi-Rossi_Energy-...

I found this bit a little jarring: "Thorium reactors would not melt down, in part because they require an external input to produce fission."

As we should all know by know, this isn't the only risk for meltdowns. The Fukushima reactors scrammed almost instantly after the earthquake, well before the tsunami, but it was the continual heat production of the fission products in spent fuel which was the real danger.

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