tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post7809479901934325961..comments2024-02-16T17:52:44.944-06:00Comments on The Nuclear Green Revolution: Kirk Sorensen to Announce Silver Bullet in ManchesterCharles Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-43574558943954995302009-06-26T20:28:34.793-05:002009-06-26T20:28:34.793-05:00RE: The Silver Bullet
The Lftr was the first date...RE: The Silver Bullet<br /><br />The Lftr was the first date in my love affair with thorium power. But other beauties have caught my eye of late. There is the PB-AHTR and the thorium hydride nuclear battery. Then there is my current favorite, my best love, a beauty with overwhelming powers of seduction, the FRC thorium/fusion hybrid reactor. I hope you don’t think me a cad and a rake, but I just can’t help myself. But, the Lftr still remains a dear, dear friend. That being said, I now confess my weakness and my infidelity. With this admonition, I sincerely beg your forgiveness as the steadfast and loving father of this wonderful and hansom daughter.<br /><br /><br />AxilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-49237384408282762132009-06-26T19:33:11.879-05:002009-06-26T19:33:11.879-05:00I didn't care for it personally. Its a rather ...I didn't care for it personally. Its a rather forced analogy to compare the internet, communication technology and software, with energy. It is a huge stretch and I don't think he made his case, as interesting as the talk was.<br /><br />Also he doesn't define terms. For instance he takes up the Greens, mostly correctly, but then repeats one of their great mantra's: "distributive generation" without defining what HE means by it. Very frustrating.<br /><br />He touched on a VERY touch subject: the ascendancy of Silicon Valley over Rte. 128 starting in the 1960s. I remember this well as I had a cousin who worked for Xerox who made that move...from Rt. 128 in Ma. to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (he worked on the first 'mouse' and the first color Xerox machine).<br /><br />DavidDWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070034894266417461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-88252763119113670342009-06-26T16:31:11.976-05:002009-06-26T16:31:11.976-05:00There is a striking increase in BOB METCALFE’s lev...There is a striking increase in BOB METCALFE’s level of knowledge about the finer points of nuclear power in the short time frame between the MIT video that you reference and his recent article about small reactors in the Wall Street Journal. This shows the essential and unique talent of a technology profit to absorb information quickly and draw accurate conclusions from that information.<br /><br />He has rightfully identified the bottleneck toward progress in small nuclear energy to be the bureaucracy at the NRC. A nuclear reactor license from the NRC is the proverbial “Meal Ticket” for the very exclusive club of big multinational corporations that only they can afford. The HOT venture capital money that will make small nuclear energy really take off like the internet did in days long past will wait patiently on the sidelines. Girded by their enthusiasm and idealism, one of these small companies will eventually prevail. One of these small startups will endure the prohibitive level of bureaucratic absurdity to eventually get their mail ticket from the NRC. Then venture capital will jump hard into the stock of this small nuclear reactor provider with both feet.<br /><br />This is a tragic indictment in the conundrum that is the nuclear power industry. We find ourselves stuck in our current energy paradox like a huge and pitiful mammoth sunk deep in the black and suffocating tar pits of stupidity. Only its trunk protrudes out of the muck barely clinging to life. It vainly thrashes in an ever weakening state in desperation at the hope of life and gasping for air. Such is our current state. Such is the consequences of the heavy and oppressive hands of government tightening around the neck of innovation. Such is the tragedy of our self imposed energy predicament paralyzed by caution and fear. Let us hope against hope that the current administration will take these insights of our best and brightest to heart and pull us out of this bureaucratic quagmire.<br /><br /><br />AxilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-21621027569590259452009-06-25T17:32:49.516-05:002009-06-25T17:32:49.516-05:00I think the reality is that humans have a variety ...I think the reality is that humans have a variety of heavy metal bullets in their arsenal that makes the idea of energy scarcity a solvable problem.<br /><br />That scares the hell out of the energy supply establishment.Rod Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652375336090790205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-44580421594108762622009-06-25T14:12:08.897-05:002009-06-25T14:12:08.897-05:00I am collecting silver bullets today.I am collecting silver bullets today.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-79651465457420368652009-06-25T13:55:38.921-05:002009-06-25T13:55:38.921-05:00Should the title read "...Thorium Bullet...&q...Should the title read "...Thorium Bullet..."<br /><br />DavidDWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070034894266417461noreply@blogger.com