rickmaltese

If any of you have considered writing a book and find you can't afford to take time off work why not crowdfund. This author started as a blogger and created a following then proceeded to collect monthly while producing 1 or 2 chapters a month. Chapter 9 is expected soon for his book called Energy Reality: A Necessary Renaissance

Good review of new book about Thorium Reactors.

I'm the guy who posted the blog. If you were to see the blog in context you would change your point of view. The rest of the site is devoted to Thorium Molten Salt Reactors. Romney is the last person I would want to run for President. I think Obama needs an edge. By bringing in a controversial idea like clean green nuclear energy he might ruin his chances but he might not. It truly is a lesser of two evils situation. I happen to believe Romney is a lot worse. I have observed the situation closely. Steven Chu has no interest in solving the problems with the NRC. The NRC is seriously holding back innovation.

I never wanted an argument. I think you are using my article to show off a few of your own personal pet peeves. You are trying to squeeze my article as an example of those but I think you are trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. The word desperate is really inappropriate since desperation implies that I have some sneaky agenda. Over 15 years of experiments and research is not guess work which took place in a real laboratory. The guesswork I was referring to was that which will take place to do even better reactors than have already been built. The Molten Salt Reactor was very easy to operate. When they finished a weeks work. They simply turned it off for the weekend and turned it back on the following Monday. That cannot be done with the reactors that became the dominant reactor Light Water Reactors.

The point is that shooting too high like, for example, stopping global warming, is maybe much harder to achieve than a smaller local issue in which you can be more of a player and have a better chance at affecting change.

More than REALLY desperate. How about seriously concerned for the well being of the planet? I guess if I were to die knowing that I helped reverse a calamity that allowed future generations to enjoy their futures rather than dwindle from disease, extreme weather, economic collapse or even a Mad Max scenario which might be a best case scenario, then I'd feel it was worth this effort.

All I want to happen is that some form of energy that does not create green house gases to replace the coal plants and other polluting sources that are currently ruining the lives of many forms of animal and plant life on land and in the seas.

We can make very good educated guesses about Thorium molten salt reactors that can be made better than the already successful experiments that took place at Oak Ridge National Laboratory back in the 60's and 70's.

Scientists who actually study nuclear energy know that the damage caused by the fossil fuels has been far, far greater than that cause by nuclear energy.

If I were preaching to the President to lie to the public then that would be pathetic. It would be non-democratic to try to go with the whole mess without getting the people's approval but that is not what the article is saying. I wrote the article and I do believe that people want to know the truth and if someone like Obama were to suddenly start down that path there is a much better chance that he would get that message across than anyone else.

In case you had not noticed every election year is getting further and further from democracy because neither candidate is addressing the real problems in their campaigns. When they do get elected after a close election nothing much changes. They are criticized for false promises. Well I'm only asking that something valuable actual be part of the agenda.

The system does not work very well. The wealthy can damage an opponent anonymously by funding smear campaigns just because the opponents want to improve conditions for the majority of the population.

The four year cycle that every president has does not get enough time to implement his plans and he's blamed for the damages caused by previous regimes. The republicans successfully blocked most of Obama's ideas for change then they criticize him for not doing anything.

The fear factor has played a role in preventing technology from advancing. Besides the assassinations of the 60's and the terrorist attacks that keep killing people the irrational fear has been growing. Fear of things people don't understand is normal to some extent. What is beginning to be less normal is that people are willing to be fed information without investigating and seeking the truth.

The Chernobyl accident is the only truly serious nuclear accident that took place. It is well documented. Even a little research reveals that Chernobyl was unique because it had no containment. That is why people died. The other two you mention had far less radiation and no deaths occurred at Three Mile Island or are predicted by the well informed scientists and professionals at Fukushima.

The article is really just an exercise to make the reader think.

Which guys? The democrats or the thorium and nuclear advocates? Would you care to elaborate?