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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (144455)	9/17/2010 9:14:44 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 541961

<<<"Source of energy is not a problem" Yes, it is.>>> Have to disagree. We have the science. What we lack is the political will. Just like nuclear when we had the science. All it took was the will to go out and kill people that we developed the will to take on the Manhattan Project. It only took a few years to develop the bomb. We converted atoms into nuclear energy. Now we have the science to convert sunlight into solar energy. We have virtually unlimited sunlight. All we need is the political will to take on something like a Manhattan Project. We just don't have the political will.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (144455)	9/18/2010 2:12:58 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541961

>>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.