On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:15:04 -0700 (PDT), oldjag
wrote:
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Given the huge potential impact LFTR and liquid fuels generation could
have on our economy I can not understand why I have not heard one iota
about either from any mainstream "news" source or "alternative" energy
show. I doubt 1 in 100 people in the US have ever even heard about
LFTR. India and China are already putting money into research for
LFTR's.
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Again the Chinese are not only planning but acting.

While not mainstream US media (The DT is a UK paper), the
implementation of LFTR appears to be a PRC priority.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...h-thorium.html
{watch the wrap, and scan the reader comments}

One item of interest is that thorium is a byproduct of REE
[rare earth element] mining/extraction, with frequently more
thorium recovered than REEs. Thorium can also be
economically extracted from coal fired power station fly
ash, with more potential energy than the original coal, and
China currently burns more coal than any other nation.


-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).