For either fusion or thorium, or anything else, it's largely, pushed, by
money/cost/price. Cost killed uranium-235 reactors, not protests, not 3 mile
island, nor Chernobyl, nor Fukashima. China and Korea build them, still, but
sticker shock forces most utilities and government boards to opt for natural
gas turbines Me-thane gas to those of the UK). Thorium is being worked on by
India and may well succeed. But that is still 10 years away from a
"commercial" reactor.
Moreover, we could have, as a species, traveled to Mars, if we wanted to,
anytime in the last years. The costs in 1980 currencies would have approached 1
trillion, in about 10 years of funding, and like the US moon missions, once we
go there and see a dry, stony, planet, the emotional return on investment,
would have been a big yawn. My point is that human beings are economic apes, as
you already know, and we are driven by the symbolics of everything. It controls
or influences our behavior. This is the way things seem to be.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com>
To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Aug 27, 2015 1:14 pm
Subject: Re: Tri Alpha Energy
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List
<everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
John, I am guessing that these guys are working hard, but achieving commercial,
nuclear fusion is not in the cards.
It certainly won't be in the cards if nobody even tries. I think Thorium power
would be vastly easier than fusion power but I could be wrong and these guys
are using their own money not government money so I wish them luck.
>
It may never be in the cards, as an electricity power source, except as, a
means of fast interplanetary travel.
I don't follow, how can if work in an
interplanetary
spaceship but not in your local power plant?
John K Clark
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