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One of your better ones...very amusing, thank you!

Diver, you just don't get it, do you?

Thorium is the most energy dense material on the planet!

And nuclear waste is just unpent fuel in any MSR!

Understand that we could burn this stuff for literally thousands of years, given the current size of the stockpile. With the pioneering economies reaping the greatest enduring rewards!

Look at this comparison and based on extrapolated Oak Ridge usage reports. A 30 MW light water reactor will in its 30 year lifetime, require 2551 tons of enriched and very costly uranium!

And then burn less than around 1 % of it, creating in the process, around 2550 tons of nuclear waste, or in our MSR's hundreds of years worth of unspent fuel. Fuel other folks will pay us annual billions to thoughtfully dispose of!

ANNUAL BILLIONS! And enough to pay for all the reactors, the wage and fuel bill!

And we would use MRS's as waste burners because they cannot melt down and have passive safety that automatically shuts them down if there's a power failure.

And because they are unpressurized, cannot replicate the Chernobyl disaster! CANNOT!

In contrast, the MSR thorium will need only one ton of abundant and far less expensive fuel for the operational lifetime.

And generate enough virtually free copious, flame-free heat. To convert our thermal coal to alternative fuels that will still cost a fraction of the stuff we currently import!

Creating myriad new industries far and wide, in the process!

And for as long as we need to!

If you want to see an economic boom and a period of (BORING) unprecedented prosperity? For all Australians!

Then all you need is truly affordable (BORING) electric power! NOW THAT WASN'T TOO HARD, WAS IT?
Alan B.

Diver, recommend you type in, The case for thorium, into your search engine.

Then when it comes up, have a butchers at Kirk Sorensen' U tube presentation, in easily understood layman's language.

Or prize-winning, investigative Journalist, Richard Martin's easily understood, brief encapsulation of his book, Thorium, Super fuel, subtitled, green energy.

And available online at varying prices as low as a few dollars for preloved copies. And should be required reading for every Australian politician and Journalist!

Apart from that, U tube has presentations by several pro-thorium and highly credentialled experts, one of who is ivy league professor, (ret) economist Robert Hargreaves, who if you can sit through his aging presentation style?

Will inform you, that the estimate for private thorium power, could be as low as 1.98 cents PKH?

Or as we say here, per KwH. That's one point nine eight cents. or if you will a tad under two cents per Kwh!?

Power that cheap would have the car manufacturing queuing to relocate here. Along with virtually all energy-dependent, high tech manufacturing.

Add in genuine and previously explain/recommended tax reform and that queue would swell with every cashed up, self-funded, retiree from the four corners of the globe!

And with the latter, find/create full employment for every able-bodied (low skills) employee, who has been thrown of the (redundant) human scrap heap!

Given deionization, dialysis desalination is already cheap enough at today's (trialled in Texas) power prices to provide cost-effective broad scale irrigation!

Imagine what would be possible with the promise of thorium as the world's cheapest, world's safest, world's cleanest energy as the power source!

We can and should, become an island of sanity in a world gone mad!

Hope that helps?
Cheers, Alan B.

Thanks Al.

A comprehensive outline. Now if we can link this up to future posts, we can simply refer back to this post if we wish to be reminded.

DD.

Diver, don't concern yourself. It's not you who needs the endless reminding bb and clueless as the day we gave them a gurnesy to waste on completely personal power trips. And those please explain pollies that remain just as dumb as the day they failed matric.

It's not you that needs reminding.

And given these posts are read, we're told, in the halls of power on capitol hill, number ten downing street and the corridors of power in Canberra, keeping the topic in front of their surprisingly short (goldfish?) attention span!?

May get the attention of one or two who currently have no program or policies, but instead, rely on the protest vote and dumbed down populism!

By the time I've finished, just about every poster would be able to run a MSR! Competently? And even explain what happens in the bowels, to almost any, please explain, Politician. And in simple plane language!
Cheers, Alan B.