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User Info UK About To Leapfrog US In Energy?; entered at 2012-03-04 05:04:19
Ribbit
Posts: 2438
Registered: 2007-09-10 Wales, UK
Otiswild: "I'm thinking it's an uphill battle in the UK, their envirodouchebags are more strident and shrill than those in the US."

Since before Climategate I've been having run ins with the very worst of these envirodouchebags, and promoting LFTR like mad.

Particularly small sized LFTR that can fit into a footprint the size of a 40ft container. This would allow production line manufacturing of them, and diversification of generating capacity - have an infrastructure that ties into the National grid, so that units can be plugged in on small sites where the power is actually needed, which would eliminate transmission losses.

Alongside them, mains water supply connections could be installed in many convenient places (especially perhaps near the coast), so that water desalination can play as important a role as liquid fuel creation.

Plus that source of high grade heat (cheap high grade heat at that), has all manner of other potential industrial uses.

When surplus water is available (which will be fairly often during periods of low demand), it can be pumped uphill to the reservoirs and large storage ponds that are near towns and cities.

As an aside, I don't know why Magneto Hydro Dynamic (MHD) generators aren't built into the water mains piping - the water is flowing through them anyway.

High grade heat and clean water, as well as power to drive growing lights and climate control, could have fantastic market garden potential using drip agriculture in greenhouses too. In places like the Sahara, which has vast amounts of water under the sand, LFTR, desalination, and drip agriculture, could provide a large part of Africa with cheap energy, clean drinking water, and plenty of food.

The Nile has 6 harvests a year remember. The Sahara would be at least as good (and could probably feed the World on its own - let alone doing the same in other deserts).

The pressure on population (presently needed, for getting water, fuel, and food, because it all relies on man, woman, and child power), would be very much in the down direction.

I started off getting a very hostile response to LFTR, from people that are more interested in problems and scaremongering (problems and scaremongering are their route to self justification and massive income), than solutions.

They started fading very much into the background when the logic of LFTR started sinking in, even with them, only having a brief flurry of attempted resurgence, after the Japanese Fukushima disaster.

I then spent a lot of time pointing out that LFTR would be perfectly safe to build even in places like Fukushima.

Somewhere else where LFTR makes a huge amount of sense, and where it would have a massive effect on the demand for liquid fuels, would be as ship propulsion units. If all container and merchant ships were converted to LFTR propulsion systems, just think how much fuel that would save (shipping consumes HUGE amounts of liquid fuels).

If a ship sank with a LFTR propulsion system, so what? It could either be left where it sank, with the ship, to no harmful effect, or, easily salvaged (especially if designed to be easily salvaged).

There's so many upsides with thorium, even a blinkered, agenda driven, agit-prop activist envirodouchebag can see them.

The very worst of them really hate LFTR, because bottom line, they hate and despise humanity, and can't stand the prospect of our species having a bright, cheerful, optimistic future, and will do (and have been doing) everything in their power to return us to the caves, on the way back to the trees.

They don't like admitting that though, and especially in public to themselves. So now, when confronted with LFTR, the almost sensible ones just shut the fuck up and go away.

eta: some of the very worst, have been coming back onto blogs, and asking for more info on LFTR. There's a seed change happening.

Last modified: 2012-03-04 05:15:03 by ribbit
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2012-03-04 05:04:19