We may already have access to a bountiful, safe supply of clean energy

Nobody is talking about Thorium, but Kirk Sorensen has made a believer out of me.

Jerold Levoritz for American Thinker

Here is the unvarnished truth that has been kept secret by the choices of important people. At present population levels, there may be more than enough energy in the world for the next 100,000 years (maybe for millions of years) that is relatively easy to obtain, clean, and safe, and that would be productive of peace among men, because there would be fewer fights over resources.

The fuel of the future is thorium, and it is being withheld from the world because too few people know about it to demand it—and there’s no reason for this ignorance. Why the secrecy?

While positive for ordinary folks, thorium could ruin everything for important people who make their living from dealing with the consequences of conflict based on energy resources. What, then, would the bureaucrats, the military, and academics do to put bread on their tables?

With the implementation of a thorium-based economy, people and energy-hungry AI utilities would coexist without competing for limited electrical power. In a sense, we could have our cake and eat it too. And, as a bonus, we could stop consuming some of the rare resources of our only planet.

For all the foregoing reasons and hopes, I would like to suggest to decision-makers in Washington that they seek out and support the work of Kirk Sorensen, a nuclear engineer who has been doggedly pushing liquid-fluoride-thorium reactors for more than fifteen years. The technology that he touts has been understood since the mid-1940s and was demonstrated in a working model in the mid-1950s and again in the 1960s before the government shut down the thorium project.

There are still unresolved scientific issues blocking our access, but most require engineering tweaks rather than entirely new science. Fourteen years ago, Sorensen announced that China would start an LFTR plant, and in a more recent post, he notes that China has already brought an experimental plant online.

It was clear at the time that the U.S. government had chosen an inferior technology because it was easier to fabricate weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear weapons. Plutonium is often considered a dangerous waste product, with Pu-238 having a half-life of about 87 years and Pu-239 having a half-life of around 24,000 years. It can be reused in some fuel cycles, but it’s not safe to have around.

Below are YouTube links to two of his posts, separated by 15 years of Sorensen’s continuous but futile efforts to advocate for thorium.

Viewers! Brace yourselves for your introduction to nuclear engineering so you can add your voices to saving the world from “important people.” Please watch the following two links.

About half the sentences can be understood by people without an engineering background. The flavor of the esoteric stuff can be absorbed for later reference even without complete comprehension.

Under Sorensen’s thorium energy regimen, which should be relatively easy to bring to fruition, everyone will be comfortably warm or cool, raise happy families, and travel the world for pleasure.

For a limited time, the ideas in the links above can be treated like an interesting armchair exercise. You can compare Sorensen’s understanding of thorium with the contrived stories about the energy crisis drifting by you on a computer monitor—but only until the manipulators we are living under arrive at your front door.

Then the exercise will change its character, and you will be out on the streets, fighting from the barricades or trying to make important people include you with their protected minions. Alternatively, you will be dead before your time under the New World Order mantra: “MAID is for everyone!”

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