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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11197)	8/31/2010 2:33:45 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24235

Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, telegraph.co.uk. The I E A says the world must invest $26 trillion (£16.7 trillion) over the next 20 years to avert an energy shock. The scramble for scarce fuel is already leading to friction between China, India, and the West. Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia at CERN on the use of thorium as a cheap, clean and safe alternative to uranium in reactors may be the magic bullet we have all been hoping for, though we have barely begun to crack the potential of solar power. Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal – named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday - produces as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium, or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal. A mere fistful would light London for a week.