Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
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Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
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Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#2I want a thorium-powered car.
Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#3Why is it so obvious to the internet and no one else that thorium is the future of power? What do they (the experts) know that we don't?
Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#4Why is it so obvious to the internet and no one else that thorium is the future of power? What do they (the experts) know that we don't?
The other party benefits from status quo and we don't, that's why. :)
...maybe
Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#5Why is it so obvious to the internet and no one else that thorium is the future of power? What do they (the experts) know that we don't?
Thorium is cleaner than Uranium, and does not produce radiaoactive elements that can be used for weapons proliferation (it does not produce plutonium).
Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#6They say Bill Gates because he's famous.
This is a spinoff of Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures - which is a patent trolling company. They may talk about plans to produce actual nuclear power, but I'll believe it when I see it. However it is guaranteed to create a lot of patents.
Personally, even if it does succeed, I would have a bad taste in my mouth for anything and everything involved because I do not like Nathan Myhrvold.
Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#7They say Bill Gates because he's famous. This is a spinoff of Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures - which is a patent trolling company. They may talk about plans to produce actual nuclear power, but I'll believe it when I see it. However it is guaranteed to create a lot of patents. Personally, even if it does succeed, I would have a bad taste in my mouth for anything and everything involved because I do not like…
Do you know him?
Honesty I don't have a huge amount of information about his other dealings, but I think there is a genuine case for what he is trying to do with IV, even if you disagree with with methods.
With me and my company, he has been a man of tremendous character and generosity. I daresay you and most others are prejudging the situation. In error.
Keep in mind, I am no fan of the patent system either.
http://daniellefong.com/2010/02/11/how-law-shapes-the-busine...
Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#8Why is it so obvious to the internet and no one else that thorium is the future of power? What do they (the experts) know that we don't?
Because Thorium isn't the answer. What I don't get, that people who care about technology and about freedom prefer a centralised technology like fission power over a decentralised technology like solar or wind, in combination with electricity storage.
So far nobody has developed a reactor design which is really better or cleaner than what it is currently available. No "new" design could deliver what it has promised. Not even nuclear power was able to deliver what it has promised to begin with.
Well, I guess, we both don't get the other side.
Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#9They say Bill Gates because he's famous. This is a spinoff of Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures - which is a patent trolling company. They may talk about plans to produce actual nuclear power, but I'll believe it when I see it. However it is guaranteed to create a lot of patents. Personally, even if it does succeed, I would have a bad taste in my mouth for anything and everything involved because I do not like…
Do you know him? Honesty I don't have a huge amount of information about his other dealings, but I think there is a genuine case for what he is trying to do with IV, even if you disagree with with methods. With me and my company, he has been a man of tremendous character and generosity. I daresay you and most others are prejudging the situation. In error. Keep in mind, I am no fan of the patent system either. http://…
> Do you know him?
I didn't know Adolf Hitler, but I know enough of him to know that he wasn't a nice person.
Patent trolling is a legal form of extortion. It is evil. Myhrvold is an evil man.
Re: Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium
#10Why is it so obvious to the internet and no one else that thorium is the future of power? What do they (the experts) know that we don't?
My understanding is that there are some very real engineering hurdles to overcome. Molten salts are extremely corrosive and maintenance isn't exactly easy on a nuclear reactor. The theory is sound, but so far, operations costs and materials engineering appear to kill the ROI.