If Amazon was serious about their centralized transaction and distribution model, their commitment to moving products from manufacture to seller over ever increasing distances, their commitment to deep processing power, with its necessity for an energy-rich future...

They would get behind Thorium and LFTR.
And let other silly, deluded corporate hobbyists fund the low-yield weather-intermittent countless points of failure crap.
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"DID SOMEONE SAY THORIUM?" TIME ONCE AGAIN FOR
CONFESSIONS OF A SLASHDOT ENERGY AND LFTR FANBOI
Updated for 2017! All original unless noted! Browse! Engage! Plagiarize!

This letter of mine has been in Donald Trump's possession since May 2, 2016 [scribd.com] . If you read it you may discover why I considered Trump the only candidate worthy of such a message. In his pronouncement to pursue energy self-sufficiency in general and consider nuclear an essential part of the mix, there is hope. The others offer nothing but more years of bad road and an obscenely stupid fixation on base load irredeemables (wind and solar). Trump is literally the only one with the courage to stand up to the tripe.

In 2013 I reached out to Senator Inhofe [scribd.com] to propose an energy path for Oklahoma and the country.

Also in 2013 I reached out directly to Halliburton Corporate [scribd.com] with a very specific idea that just might have laid groundwork for their secure long-term future. At the time their stock was climbing towards $70 and they probably thought they didn't have a care in the world. Not so good now. Not a glimmer from this one either. I had high hopes for it.

Mentioned in these letters is Faulkner's 2005 paper on Electric (HVDC) pipelines [scribd.com], and the two hour Thorium Remix 2011 [youtube.com] video presentation (time index below).

It's fun to discuss nuclear energy on Slashdot [slashdot.org] ... It's time for Elmo to Grow Up! [slashdot.org]... A brief history of nuclear energy fear in these United States [slashdot.org]... You should fear everything besides nuclear energy [slashdot.org]... Solar drives California towards cannibalism, or your money back [slashdot.org]... There's a fire, and people pushing intermittent sources are blocking the exits [slashdot.org]... Hiding wonders of the modern world from the kids [slashdot.org]...Some energy priorities [slashdot.org]... 2016: The Year in energy [slashdot.org]... Meet the folks of TBA, a city willing to store spent nuclear fuel [slashdot.org]... Nothing is as patriotic as mining [slashdot.org]... A move to LFTR may be the only way to preserve modern society in the face of disaster (volcanism, Maunder minimum) [slashdot.org]... Can the grid 'black-start' after a disaster? [slashdot.org]... Sometimes you just have to point things out [slashdot.org]... some confuse Weinberg's '300 year best-fit for waste' two fluid design for other single fluid designs [slashdot.org]... or using solid fuel Thorium, which is pointless so long as uranium is available [slashdot.org]... yes it's full of dangerous glop, but it is useful and happy glop [slashdot.org]... yes, I think a LFTR could be developed and built within $4B [slashdot.org]... every path to biofuels leads to scorched-earth disaster, Thorium energy gives us the surplus to generate synfuels [slashdot.org]... Decommissionining of nuclear plants promotes an ugly 'vulture culture' [slashdot.org]... One way to do it: ThorCon, a thorium burner not breeder [slashdot.org]... Aside from your own yard or roof, solar and wind are losers [slashdot.org]... With LFTR surplus we could begin making diesel and fertilizer [slashdot.org]... Do it for the children [slashdot.org]... No-Plan-Stan tries to derail another discussion about Thorium [slashdot.org]... EVOLUTIONARY DEAD END COOKIES (serves 7 billion) [slashdot.org]... AND YOU MY FRIEND -- you would look especially good in Space [slashdot.org] ... To summarize most energy threads on Slashdot [slashdot.org]... Finally! Someone who feels personally threatened by solar net-metering! [slashdot.org]... Golly Gee, it's the UN Convention for Nuclear Safety [slashdot.org]... Antineutrino Detection is a good thing, but be wary of the Church of Environmentalism [slashdot.org]... Beware the pseudo-environmentalism of waste-fault-finding [slashdot.org]... An Admiral Rickover fact check (severe tire damage) [slashdot.org]... LNT (linear no threshold) needs re-examination [slashdot.org]... No I'm not risk adverse, just risk conscious [slashdot.org]... Don't destroy the environment, use surplus energy to sequester CO2 (if you wish) [slashdot.org]... Welcome to Camp Awesome [slashdot.org]... Build a giant wind turbine for Toad Suck [slashdot.org]... SAY HELLO TO THE SUPERTOY OF THE FUTURE, [slashdot.org] the nuclear/RTG powered Teddy bear!... Sitting Ducks Hail Megatons to Megawatts [slashdot.org]... Weaponize space (for asteroids) [slashdot.org]... One must sift past Fukushima fear-hype [slashdot.org]... So what is good about Fukushima Daiichi? [slashdot.org]...And no, it's not a freaking extinction level event [slashdot.org]... (Leslie Corrice on the 'cancer spike') [hiroshimasyndrome.com], so keep a level head about it [slashdot.org]... No, Japan is not decided on nuclear power [slashdot.org]... Energy subsidies! The stupid, it burns! and Japan's biggest mistake [slashdot.org]...Meanwhile China is forging ahead on nuclear power [slashdot.org]... China is poised to build 'Americas' wherever it pleases [slashdot.org]... Meet Robert Faulkner, (apparently) the only other person who believes in HVDC pipelines [slashdot.org]... A look at Electricity in the Time of Cholera [slashdot.org]... On the new coal powered IBM Power8 chips [slashdot.org]... Thorium lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. Why aren't you helping? [slashdot.org]

THORIUM REMIX 2011 [2:23:49], INDEX OF CONTENT: LFTR in 5 minutes [youtube.com] ... Dialogue on Energy sources & conservation [youtube.com] ... Elizabeth May (Green Party of Canada) on why nuclear 'fails', response [youtube.com] ... Kirk Sorensen's time at NASA, discovering molten salt research [youtube.com] ... On Glenn Seaborg's discovery of Thorium's fissile properties in 1942 [youtube.com] ... What nuclear fission is, decay chains, half life [youtube.com] ... Neutron absorption, cross section, Xenon poisoning at Hanford [youtube.com] ... Isotopic enrichment, Thorium/u233 rejected for weapons [youtube.com] ... Atoms for Peace, absorption propensity and performance of nuclear fuels, thermal & fast spectrum, Thorium/Plutonium debate [youtube.com] ... Alvin Weinberg focuses on Thorium and liquid fuels, Oak Ridge Labs, Aircraft Reactor Experiment, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, Fluoride Salts [youtube.com] ... Two-fluid molten salt reactor [youtube.com] ... Light water reactors, Watts Bar, reactor safety and containment systems, issues with water, Fukushima Daiichi hydrogen explosions [youtube.com] ... Solid fuel & rod assemblies, Eugene Wigner & liquid fuels [youtube.com] ... PWR efficiency, Weinberg's quest for near-100% utilization, AEC's choice to pursue Plutonium fast breeders [youtube.com] ... Weinberg's concerns about LWR safety, Congressman Chet Hollifeld's inquiry, Weinberg leaves Oak Ridge, WASH-1222, Integral Fast Reactor, Traveling Wave [youtube.com] ... Fusion is hard [youtube.com] ... Thorium in a CANDU [youtube.com] ... Colonel Paul Roege on military reactors, Robert Hargraves: prosperity is related to energy, Robert F. Kennedy on mercury from coal [youtube.com] ... Transuranics, LFTR active processing, electricity & isotope production from LFTR, Pu-238 and RTGs, Molybdenum-99 & Bismuth-213 in medicine [youtube.com] ... Cost to build LFTR [youtube.com] ... Proliferation concerns [youtube.com] ... Hysterical news coverage of radiation, LNT [youtube.com] ... Coal & natural gas radioactive emissions, Thorium & Uranium decay in the Earth, magnetosphere, Hargraves on CO2 emissions & ocean acidification & energy density, one-sided press coverage for 'renewables' [youtube.com] ... Various approaches to nuclear power, the 'reason why not' (LFTR), LWR business model [youtube.com] ... China and LFTR, Sorensen's visit to Oak Ridge to obtain access to LFTR documents, the Chinese visit Oak Ridge [youtube.com] ... Thorium and rare earths, China's domination of rare earths market, China's LFTR program [youtube.com] ... Transitioning energy sources, without plentiful energy we will revert to slavery, energy cheaper than from coal [youtube.com] ... Process heat applications, desalinization, synfuels, Brayton Cycle, managing transuranics, gas & oil working against nuclear, closing remarks and recap. [youtube.com]

Think of me as the Trix Rabbit of Thorium.