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China makes progress while we go backwards


The UK’s chief nutter prepares a sacrifice to the wind gods.

It seems China is starting to look at moving away from coal fired power stations to new cleaner energy using Thorium in a TMSR (Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor). Plans are in place for a reactor to be up and running in 20 years.

This technology has been in use for some time. It has advantages in scalability as well as the fact it produces very little Plutonium as a by product.

While we turn towards technology like wind turbines and praying for wind the Chinese are picking up the mantle of technology innovator. When we start to go dark and cold they will be lighting and powering areas for the first time in history.

It isn’t too late for us to embrace this technology yet ourselves and avoid this fate. The sacrifice of a few greens and politicians will be worth it.