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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (144455)9/18/2010 2:12:58 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 541696
 
>>If we did as Evans-Pritchard suggests—marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project to develop thorium reactors—we would forego the opportunity to develop other sources of energy, to learn how to live with less energy.<<

I think the author of this fascinating article was wrong about this. The Manhattan project comprised a fairly small group of engineers, and was not wildly expensive. Remember that we were conducting a conventional war while the Atomic Bomb work was going on.

I think it's silly to think that a thorium reactor research project would require such a great portion of our national resources as to make all other efforts impossible or unaffordable. We are certainly capable, as a country, of doing more than one thing at a time.
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