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The oil crisis Saudi Arabia can't solve : Comments

By Cyril Widdershoven, published 1/7/2019

Saudi Arabia's CEO Amin Nasr's message to the press that oil flows to the market are guaranteed, should be taken with a pinch of salt.

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Of course, the Saudis are going to make those claims, they just don't want the world, the world over, to be looking for and finding alternative energy supplies and paradigms! One of which just has to be, MSR thorium. See the two videos Alan Goulding has posted on his Facebook page. MSR ( molten salt reactor)

Cannot melt down given the active medium is already molten and designed that way! Moreover, Operates at normal ambient atmosphere pressure, thereby eliminating much of the massive cost associated with the construction of current, solid fueled reactors.

Thorium is four times more abundant than uranium, cheap as lead and is less radioactive, gram for gram, ton for ton than (a) banana(s)! Designed passive safety means the reactor self drains to a cooling container in the event of a power failure or loss of critical mass.

And as such is the only reactor on earth that can be left unmanned in walk away unattended safety for months

. As the reaction heats up, the medium automatically expands slowing the, critical mass, reaction which then causes the medium to contract, thus automatically advancing the self-controlled, critical mass, reaction.

Yes, there's gamma radiation, that's absolutely shielded by the obligatory water jacket and conventional concrete walls, floor and ceiling!

I'd welcome one in my backyard given there's no smokestack spew highly toxic contaminants into the biosphere, nor ash loaded with toxic ticking time bomb elements, as with coal.

Cheap affordable, cheaper than coal, safe, clean CARBON FREE, energy, and the vastly superior heat curve, enables the endlessly sustainable synthesization of all fuel types from endlessly available seawater.

Given we were ever to be ever intelligently led. A route and energy paradigm we would embark on ASAP as if our very survival, health an economic well being, hung on it! AND IT DOES!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 1 July 2019 11:31:19 AM
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A nuclear reactor can, using spare capacity, make (fuel) Hydrocarbons from seawater. And not theoretical, but a tried and tested, proven science. CO2 is extracted via simple vacuum towers directly from seawater the compressed expanded and recompressed a number of times to liquefy it.

Interestingly, the natural symbiotic attraction by seawater, for CO2, means it draws replacement CO2 directly from the atmosphere!

A known process then combines it with liquid hydrogen. Thus we can make virtually any hydrocarbon on earth and or make ammonia, a useful substitute for diesel. and or ammonia-based fertilizers.

Other possibilities include all manner of hydrocarbon sourced plastics and synthetic rubber?

Trials to date have been conducted exclusively at sea, to eliminate transport costs, which have resulted in some savings. But because of the cost of running nuclear reactors (conventional solid fueled) not viable as an onshore option, unless vastly cheaper MSR thorium is deployed ASAP!

Even where we to fund and start an R+D program now today? At least 7 years away from a safe deployable Moten salt reactor. And a century if left to the crimson fools who currently led us?

Ultra critical time's a ticking!

FRED, FRED!

YES BARNEY, NEED TO GO SOMEWHERE?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 1 July 2019 11:58:41 AM
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Onya Cyril!

Methinks:

Plan A: All we proud OLO Tosser-artistes should propel our autos to petrol stations forthwidth. The risk being prices may go past $2/litre next week.

or

Plan B: Hiya Alan B.

Can ya jam a MSR Thorium reactor into me V12 Maserati http://youtu.be/ndy78kFUBdY?t=20s by Thursday?

Pete "The Stig"
Chickmagnet :)
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 1 July 2019 4:12:52 PM
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Pete, re thorium power plant for Maserati?

Suggest you look at Thorium in four minutes and for a look at what might be possible with laser beam activated, miniaturised system.

I've read claims that just 8 grams of thorium in such a miniaturised system, [and no doubt the Chinese are working on one], will power the family jalopy and your house for 100 years, before being completely depleted.

Given a recovery and refining cost of around $100.00. That my friend is just one Oxford scholar ($1.00) a year. And the crisis in the Middle East and petrol breaching $2.00 a litre, might finally be enough, for those clowns in Canberra to get on with it or just give the entrepreneurial class, the still withheld thorium R+D permission?

I figure a thorium-powered full electric might whip your Maserati at the start line and at most corners.

A full electric Tesla would now, and not run out of energy, if we converted all our major highways, to graphene. There's a system that turns spare alternator power to gas recovered from tap water.

Petrol driven piston engines consume as much as 85% of their power just spinning the flywheel! LEAVING JUST 15% FOR THE TRANSMISSION.

Fred Flintstone experienced no such drawback with his earlier petrol free model.

And where we could be headed if the numbskulls in office don't lift their heads (their game) from the warm and comfortable places they've buried them?

God help us, we've got Morrison for PM And Dutton as the probable PM in waiting, puppet master?

Regenerative braking adds to the decomposition capacity and gas production. a cobalt catalyst doubles it Regen braking saves on brake pads.
Cheers, Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 1 July 2019 5:25:36 PM
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Pete, see thorium in four minutes on U tube for the miniaturised thorium power plant?

Other strategies for improving MPG, including injecting demin water to the cylinder with every six power stroke. This means you no longer need spin a fan to cool the engine? Slick fifty added with next oil change and as directed, will eliminate some heat by reducing friction.

Slick fifty, if memory serves, claims a slip coefficient of ice on ice. And there's not a lot slipperier than that, save a few unnamed pollies and corporate psychos pretending to give a rat's?

I mean none of them to a generic man ever puts their own hand into their wallet to fill a gas tank!

Just us taxpayers and we shareholders.

Little wonder they are seemingly oblivious and unconcerned with day to day, bread and butter issues as they try and wedge the other side on tax.

Like, we're awash in rivers of spare cash/tax revenue and well into the black already!?

NDIS fully funded and no child or pensioner living in poverty or below the poverty line!

The measure of a Christian nation is how well they look after the less well off.

As the Master said, so as you do unto the least among you, so also do you do unto me?

Now, why didn't I think of that, we could give the tin lids and granny a tax break? That'd fix everything, now, wouldn't it!?
Cheers, Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 1 July 2019 6:03:28 PM
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Hi Alan B. on THORIUM vs URANIUM reactors.

1. This may be the 4 minute Thorium reactor Youtube that you refer:

http://youtu.be/bcjYwxrUERg Published on Nov 4, 2018 "Are We Getting Closer to Thorium Nuclear Fuel?...Thorium is an alternative fuel that promises to produce safer, cleaner and more efficient nuclear power...if harnessed correctly."

2. But beware of another, longer Youtube Published on May 4, 2018 "Thorium Thorium Reactors: Fact and Fiction... Thorium is less wonderful after 8 minutes http://youtu.be/CMcMXAjsK0w?t=8m

And especially after http://youtu.be/CMcMXAjsK0w?t=10m11s "so why weren't Thorium reactors designed instead?"

3. I was talking to a female friend, over 80, the other day. She relies on HOPE AND FAITH that New Energy Techical Advances will UNDOUBTEDLY bequeath a better, safer, world for her Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren...

Regards

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 1 July 2019 10:50:22 PM
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