/sci/ - Science & Math

We need LFTRs.

We need to go full LFTR.

LFTRs.

>>11267278

>Exponentially growing technoutopia is possible if you have a sustainable and abundant source of energy to fuel it.

This. Luddites dont know about LFTR.

LFTRs (or other Generation IV reactors) are the answer.

Oh look, lftr thread. Dumping some pics.

>>5722340
also http://energyfromthorium.com/

(though their site got 200% more gay in the last year)

China, Czech Republic, India, UK, Japan, and US are all starting thorium research programs. The next five years will be very interesting!

>>5631267
Yes I have an opinion. It is a travesty that we let the LFTR technology languish since the '60s. Entrenched interests (fuel rod manufacturers) have suppressed it. And now China and India have plundered the Oak Ridge archives and are set for energy independence via LFTR technology in five years, while the US becomes a coal-choked declining empire.

The only independent nuclear interest with any funding is the traveling wave reactor, backed by Bill Gates. Promising, but not as efficient as LFTR.

>>5367837

None of you /sci/s have an answer?

I am about to be disappoint

>1) lucid dreaming

Its a well supported phenomenon

>4) thorium future

LFTRs have great potential, despite some (solved or solvable) design challenges. Its not made-up bullshit. Why do you think so?

>5) private space travel creating a spacefaring race

While purely private spaceflight is yet not possible, public-private programs (NASA paying, private companies executing) show great promise in efficiency and cost reduction.

More pics.

>>4368751

>Thorium requires resources the west just doesn't have right now.

Nope, resources are not an issue.

Thorium requires political will to develop, and thats what the west does not have.

>>4297592
>Ronald Reagan reversed Carter's ban on reprocessing
Yay!

The reason why the LFTR is being held back to any degree is because it can be scaled down to a small, portable size, providing whoever wants one with a way to completely escape the corporate control of anyone, for as long at the reactor functions.

I plan on buying one and using it to start up a nice commercial outpost in Africa. No more need to pay out the ass for oil and gas deliveries: I got power to spare!

bumping with thorium pics and christian pics.

>>4092234