<The only way that the worlds energy needs can possibly be met without destroying the environment is with a combination of renewable and nuclear>
Agree.
Notice also that the replacement of coal power with natural gas in the US, while a very good step, may actually be slowing the transition to renewable and nuclear power generation.
<The resistance to changing from uranium, driven by producers with a massive installed reactor base, is going to put the US at a competitive disadvantage when the dam does break and the world commits, as they will have to do, to bringing Thorium online>
Yes.
Old school nuclear reactor manufacturers like GE have every reason to twist and distort federal regulations to suppress Thorium reactor introduction. I'm pretty sure GE manufactures wind turbines, however.
<It's a shame that the US has allowed itself to be dominated politically by entrenched, wealthy interests who are adamant to keep the income streams they are enjoying at the risk of the worlds health>
True.
It's probably always been so, for example: big tobacco, big sugar, etc. Still, generating electric power from Thorium will be a huge global game-changer. When India and China demonstrate that it's practical, I bet Japan and Europe will quickly follow because they need it more urgently than the US.
After that who knows, maybe the US will become the first to deploy fusion power plants. |
