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Category Archives: Thorium
Three kinds of hybrids
The next fifteen years. Pure Electric – will be marginal Battery energy density will probably be lousy and they will be expensive so that pure electric cars can’t fill that many needs in the next fifteen years. What kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Design, Energy, engines, industry, Motivation, Thorium, Transportation, Uncategorized
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Fukushima status on Wednesday March 16 and what it means
Here’s my estimate of the situation. I’m no nuclear engineer but I know something… We use data from JAIF: And an annotated picture of a GE boiling water reactor from UCS: Now, using the above: At least half of the … Continue reading
Posted in Design, industry, Science Links, Thorium, Uncategorized
Tagged Containment, Exposed, Fuel, Fukushima, GE BWR, Japan, Mark 1, Meltdown, nuclear
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Fukushima, Japan, Information
Status of the reactors: JAIF, Japanese Atomic Industrial Forum: http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/ Radiation status in Japan: http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/speedi/pref.php?id=08 Radiation status in Finland: http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/images/P867_02.gif Radiation units: Becquerel is counts per second (particles/photons) A 1 GW coal plant releases radioactive stuff in a year that produce … Continue reading
Betting on 400 PPM CO2
Well, not real money. But Atmoz is discussing about when it will be reached with commenters. My bet is march 2018, though if you use woodfortrees to visualize, straight extrapolation seems to predict before 2015 already, for the northern hemisphere … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Humor, Motivation, Science Links, Thorium, Uncategorized
Tagged 400 PPM, co2, woodfortrees
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Factory Built Powerplants
Kirk had some thoughts when touring the Delta IV factory in Alabama.
Thorium Energy Alliance
A quick way to get up to speed on Thorium and LFTR, aimed at lay people. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU3cUssuz-U] I seriously doubt their cost and schedule stuff. One needs to do material science tests with this, so it’s going to take longer. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, industry, Motivation, Thorium
Tagged lftr, Thorium, Thorium Energy Alliance
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Save the U-233!
Posting about it again. The Energy From Thorium forum has more on what’s going on. Some bogus weapons reasons are presented to the press for why it will be downblended. It could be the startup fuel of new LFTRs instead. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, idiocracy, industry, Thorium
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Kirk Sorensen's LFTR Talk at Google
Here.
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, industry, Motivation, Science Links, Thorium
Tagged Energy, google, lftr, nuclear, sorensen, Thorium
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Neat Nation's Realtime Electricity Monitor
At Fingrid. EDIT: same in English. Usage, Imports and Exports of Electricity in Finland at one moment in time
Posted in Energy, industry, Thorium, Uncategorized
Tagged electricity, Finland, nuclear
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Rough Solutions for Significantly Reducing Carbon Emissions in the Next Few Decades
Take for example nuclear power. If there are CO2 taxes, that makes nuclear power more profitable than coal and it will automatically replace it. Also, somewhat similar for solar power. It is most of the time not wise to mandate very inefficient feelgood solar plants in cloudy areas. That is just theater. (On the other hand, it is sometimes worth supporting industry that is in its infancy and not immediately useful, but has potential in the further future. But this could be the wrong way.) But if they are built on profit and cost/benefit mechanisms alone, then they are probably built in more sensible places. Continue reading
Posted in Climate, industry, Thorium, Uncategorized
Tagged cap and trade, carbon dioxide, co2, CO2 tax, emissions trading, global warming
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