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2012-09-06 01:02 5803485 Anonymous (thorium.jpg 256x256 70kB)
The future is Thorium http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY

6 min later 5803531 Anonymous
>/sci/

6 min later 5803533 Anonymous (thorium.png 1182x1120 169kB)


7 min later 5803544 Anonymous
>implying those sneaky canadian oil producers will let this happen

8 min later 5803550 Anonymous
>>5803533 why isn't thorium being used more? with everything said about it it sounds like a wonder mineral

10 min later 5803560 Anonymous (thorium..jpg 342x544 44kB)
>>5803550 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFTR#Design_challenges

12 min later 5803580 Anonymous
>>5803560 all of these are just engineering problems... They don't make it impossible. The real problem is competing nuclear technologies like these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

13 min later 5803586 Anonymous
>>5803560 >>5803580 fucking oil companies

15 min later 5803601 Anonymous (juice.jpg 220x313 18kB)
>>5803550 It's simple, really...

18 min later 5803616 Anonymous (sweet.jpg 360x479 32kB)
>>5803560 >have shitton of oil >have shitton of thorium God truly loves the Norwegian folk. Also; >No arab countries The west will finally lose interest in that shithole and it's desert people. someone fund this shit.

22 min later 5803652 Anonymous
the EU itself also has a problem with these, they have invested trillions into the nuclear fusion failure called iter. If they lose their investment they will lose their job = they will fight with everything they have to prolong this investment.

25 min later 5803676 Anonymous
Fun fact; Thorium waste can not be used to make nukes. this is why they chose to go with Uranium instead, despite the fact that it was less efficient and more rare. The lust for destruction and mayhem yet again changes the fate of mankind.

27 min later 5803692 Anonymous
>>5803676 No nukes? Pass

28 min later 5803698 Anonymous
herpa derp. Could this potentially lead to affordable engines for space ships and thus more space travel for humans?

28 min later 5803703 Anonymous
>>5803676 >Fun fact; Thorium waste can not be used to make nukes. >not extracting neptunium from hexaflourides in waste You will never stop Murrika from turning your peaceful technology into something to kill people with. Deal with it, Europacifists.

29 min later 5803710 Anonymous
>>5803698 >Albania >into space

30 min later 5803721 Anonymous
>>5803560 Looks like the Australia and the US futures are secured.

31 min later 5803727 Anonymous
>>5803698 Cheap energy = All forms of technology and fields of science benefit, including space.

33 min later 5803740 Anonymous
>>5803560 >Turkey becomes a regional power again HA HA OH WOW TURKEY STRONG

34 min later 5803758 Anonymous (thorium.jpg 215x234 5kB)
thank you based thorium for all the money

35 min later 5803772 Anonymous (argentine.png 390x410 12kB)
>>5803740 Argentina will conquer Brazil

38 min later 5803792 Anonymous
>implying that titansteel isn't much better

48 min later 5803854 Anonymous (1346639459275.gif 500x500 108kB)
>>5803727 >All forms of technology and fields of science benefit, including space. >including space. >mfw one step closer to interplanetary American empire. The future looks bright now

51 min later 5803870 Anonymous (4567.gif 1236x931 272kB)
>canada cant into thorium america can you annex us already?

53 min later 5803885 Anonymous (1346550480107156.jpg 320x344 17kB)
>>5803772 >Argentina >white The south whiteness protect us

53 min later 5803888 Anonymous
>>5803870 I think those areas simply haven't been surveyed yet

53 min later 5803890 Anonymous (1345329908673.jpg 638x878 172kB)
>>5803870 Nunavut is future. If you need help getting rid of those natives to get to your precious metal, give your bro a call. We're quite experienced in the matter.

54 min later 5803892 Anonymous (ecce homo.png 216x271 53kB)
This thread hits me close. As a child, my family discovered we had a thorium deposit in our backyard. I might have been exposed to radiation during my formative years. http://www.epa.gov/superfund/accomp/success/kerrmcgee.htm Now I'm on /int/. Thorium. Not once.

55 min later 5803899 Anonymous
>>5803892 >tfw your neighbor died of Thorium overdose.

57 min later 5803912 Anonymous
>>5803652 >"Trillions" pahaha, nope. Actually the budget is ~€15Bn... over 35 years. Only 45% of which comes from the EU. Works out at €190million per year. - for the whole of the EU. or 7 million per member state per year. and how can it be "failed" if it's not even begun yet? Scared that us EU folk will wean ourselves off your oil? All the signs i've seen point to ITER being a resounding success, despite having it's funding cut back in early conception stages. I've been to JET, i've seen the new reactor shielding. Fuck, we might even see breakeven in 2014 when they pump it full of D-T mix. Norway's pured $100m a year into fucking Afghanistan for the past decade*, tell me that's more productive than ITER. I fucking dare you. ITER is paying for people to learn highly skilled trades. It's expanding human knowledge in materials science, plasma physics, electrical engineering, computational modelling. Tell me that's more useful to humanity than fostering energy security for a fucking continent. Fusion power would allow us to get our fuel trivially from Seawater. Seawater! No more resource wars, no blackouts. No energy rationing if the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine. Stop whining about how other people spend their money. How do you suppose Norway's oil savings are being spent? Finding alternatives to oil for when it runs out! Nuclear Fusion is once of these alternatives, along with Wind, Wave, Fission etc. *Figure 7: http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gha-Afghanistan-2011-major-re source-flows.pdf >>5803703 LFTR is an American invention. It was designed at the Oak Ridge national Lab to be put in a Nuclear bomber to linger over the north pole for months at a time ready to drop fire on the Soviets. It just happens to be a very good (if overlooked) design.

1 hours later 5803946 Anonymous (howd-it-get-burned.png 354x356 240kB)
>>5803870 Oh shit... who thought it would be a good idea to give Americans all that thorium?

1 hours later 5803947 Anonymous
I presented a lecture on LFTR to my class in college.

1 hours later 5803957 Anonymous
>>5803946 Looks like America's good luck will never end! U mad?

1 hours later 5803959 Anonymous
>>5803946 God. Just kidding! allah

1 hours later 5803962 Anonymous (1323210631392.gif 319x239 2817kB)
>>5803946 >mfw we won't need the middle east anymore.

1 hours later 5803991 Anonymous
>>5803947 Were people scared of it because "everything nuclear is bad"

1 hours later 5804000 Anonymous
>>5803957 >Implying Thorium isn't fucking everywhere. The UK has massive seams in Cornwall and Wales.

1 hours later 5804003 Anonymous
>>5803991 If Serbia is "remove kebab," USA should be "remove hippy."

1 hours later 5804024 Anonymous
>>5804003 Nigga you don't know the half of it. I live in Ithaca NY, which is like Hippieopolis. Those shiftless bums keep stinking up the town and protesting every little thing as if it were the end of the world. They age horribly and it's pretty clear that years of drug abuse have taken a toll on their sanity. They're pretty much scum and I don't feel bad saying it because unlike being black or being kebab being a Hippy is your choice and 100% your fault.

1 hours later 5804049 Anonymous
>>5804003 I prefer "remove burrito"

1 hours later 5804079 Anonymous
>>5803550 >why isn't thorium being used more? Because all of the petrochemical companies who have so much money right now don't want us to hear about it.

1 hours later 5804092 Anonymous
>>5803550 it's not a mineral, it's element. Basically, USA developed uranium nuke and uranium tech was more investigated when we first start building nuclear reactors. There was a parallel research with thorium, but it didn't have enough fundings , and technology back then wasn't that advanced. reactors are a bit more complicated... >>5803676 neither can uranium waste. You can't just go into nuclear power plant and take uranium. that's a fairy tale.. >>5803892 thorium isn't that radioactive, you are fine Also, fun fact, china is already investing in thorium research and has large quantities of thorium...

1 hours later 5804117 Anonymous
>>5803485 Can someone please find a list of engineering problems? I want to be a nuclear researcher in the future. I mean 4chan could fucking fund one if they really are that price.

1 hours later 5804141 Anonymous
>>5804117 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFTR#Design_challenges

1 hours later 5804164 Anonymous
>>5804141 Thanks. Fucking bookmarked.

3 hours later 5804897 Anonymous
>>5804164 Godspeed, Anon.

3 hours later 5805108 Anonymous (3212.png 243x294 8kB)
>>5803560 More resources we can sell to the Chinese.

3 hours later 5805109 Anonymous
>radioactive fluid fuel sounds mad.

3 hours later 5805117 Anonymous
>>The future is Thorium is that what they use to make Thorazine?

3 hours later 5805123 Anonymous
>>5804092 >neither can uranium waste. Then tell me where all the plutonium came from Serbia can't into nuclear engineering

3 hours later 5805128 Anonymous
>>5805117 They say water under pressure is more dangerous than this stuff, but fluor is not fun either. I worry a bit about fluor being used. Needs real good safety measures.

3 hours later 5805130 Anonymous
>>5805108 AUSTRALIA RICH

12 hours later 5807614 Anonymous (mjolnir1.jpg 500x569 39kB)
>Thor promised to rid the world of ice giants (and when was the last time you saw an ice giant?). >Jesus promised to rid the world of evil. >Thorium will provide safe, abundant, inexpensive, and sustainable energy for thousands upon thousans of years. >Jesusium is non-existant (just like its namesake). Thor 2, Jesus 0.

12 hours later 5807632 Anonymous
>>5805123 i was thinning about idea of terrorist coming in nuclear plant and stealing uranium, which was talked about somewhere, which is fairy tale...

12 hours later 5807665 Anonymous (1342045579573.jpg 1134x1444 887kB)
>>5807614 >Jesusium is non-existant (just like its namesake). Zeitgeist bullshit aside, you realize that there aren't any strong arguments against the idea of a historical Jesus, right? It's much more reasonable to think that Jesus was an actual Jewish philosopher and religious teacher around whom an entire religion developed, rather than someone that a bunch of people just decided had existed a generation before them. The "Jesus didn't exist" argument is just a shortcut to discrediting Christianity without getting bogged down in philosophy or anything. It sets a bad precedent also. If we can't believe that Jesus existed because of a lack of contemporary writings then we can't believe that quite a lot of figures from antiquity actually existed. Also why am I replying to this troll post?

12 hours later 5807731 Anonymous
>>5807665 Why ARE you responding to my troll post? And yes, I do realize that there was probably a hippie carpenter who accrued a group of twelve buddies and went around philosophizing, but I meant that the character of Jesus, who supposedly went around healing people and spoke for god and shit, wasn't real.

12 hours later 5807741 Anonymous
>>5807665 Oh god. This guy. I give it 10 minutes before he starts posting all those fucking studies.

12 hours later 5807756 Anonymous
>>5807731 >Why ARE you responding to my troll post? Zeitgeist stupidity has made me butthurt. >>5807741 Maybe some other time.

12 hours later 5807771 Anonymous
>>5807665 >Implying there is any proof that Jesus DID exist. Burden of proof etc.

12 hours later 5807787 Anonymous
>>5807771 >Implying there is any proof that Jesus DID exist. Writings say he did. Do you even history? Again, if we need hard physical evidence to say that someone existed, then basically every historical figure we know about didn't exist. Also, the "burden of proof" is on those making EXTRAORDINARY claims. The idea of an ancient "hippie carpenter going around philosophizing" is not that radical of an idea.

12 hours later 5807788 Anonymous
>>5807665 Even if jesus existed, it won't mean that he was divine. There is a guy in russia right now, calling himself jesus, and he has several thousands of followers, probably more followers than jesus had when he was alive. Does that mean this guy has superpowers?

12 hours later 5807803 Anonymous
>>5807787 Indeed, it's more radical to suggest that a whole group of people decided that this hippie carpenter existed a generation before they did if he actually hadn't existed.

13 hours later 5807813 Anonymous
>>5807788 >Even if jesus existed, it won't mean that he was divine. I never said that he was. Obviously one doesn't have to believe that Jesus was God in human form to believe that Jesus existed. Most secular scholars accept the idea of a historical Jesus for all of the reasons I've just given.

13 hours later 5807842 Anonymous
>>5807813 This. /sideconversation THORIUM THORIUM THORIUM

13 hours later 5807918 Anonymous
>>5803792 A better metal is found every expansion. First thorium, then that purple stuff, then titansteel, next there will be some kind of magic panda ore. I don't see what there is to get all excited about OP.

13 hours later 5807932 Anonymous (not impressed.jpg 640x480 178kB)
Oh wow. A Norwegian trying to promote another natural resource to hide the fact that they are Greece with some luck.

13 hours later 5807933 Anonymous
>>5807803 You have to keep in mind that Christianity as a religion took off and became popular AFTER Jesus had already died for centuries. it was just a small regional cult during his lifetime. Also, many of these "early christians" were branded as heretics, after the Catholics decided to write (collect) their bible. They burned a lot of early scripture that was not considered cannon and supplanted them with the edited bible.

13 hours later 5808006 Anonymous
>>5807933 >They burned a lot of early scripture that was not considered cannon and supplanted them with the edited bible. Actually the apocryphal writings were mostly saved, you can read them to this day. And some were considered semi-canon, sort of. Like the Apocryphal Gospel of Saint James. Anyway we've established that Jesus was a real person that some people believe was God. Now it's time for Thorium.

14 hours later 5808525 Anonymous
>>5807932 >2012 >Trusting a Swede to deliver an unbaised opinion on wither Norway or Denmark NOPE

25 hours later 5814776 Anonymous
>>5807932 You don't know very much about politics and economics, do you now?

37 hours later 5819543 Anonymous (Mike Hama Trust me Face.jpg 300x185 12kB)
In later generations of 4chan and mankind, lets say 50 years from now, they will see this on archive and I will be here being a standing legacy to this new power source with the dawning of a new area. -Disability-san

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