Sypnosis

Andy Hergan
Professor Rusek
9/2/10
Synopsis

The article discusses Thorium which is thought to be the magic bullet we have all been hoping for, though we have barely begun to crack the potential of solar power.   The twenty-first century is more interested in environmental well being more so than ever. The pitch for everybody to “go green” is meant for people to start taking care of the world. It means doing things like saving water, less air pollution, and so on. And with this slogan the United States and countries throughout the world have been researching and testing new ways to make renewable fuels. Meanwhile we have had the possibility to utilize a renewable few for many years through the metal, thorium but, the U.S. as well as the many other countries chose to continue with uranium which is much more dangerous and polluting. They chose to stick with uranium because they had already invested so much money in other resources and research which made countries unwilling to invest the money in thorium.
Thorium eats its own hazardous waste. It can even scavenge the plutonium left by uranium reactors, acting as an eco-cleaner. Once you start looking more closely, it blows your mind away. You can run civilization on thorium for hundreds of thousands of years, and it’s essentially free. Thorium is so common that miners treat it as a nuisance, a radioactive by-product if they try to dig up rare earth metals. Although uranium has been the standard, thorium is the future it is much cleaner so much so that it does not pollute the environment.   Thorium is also more abundant, cheaper, and more powerful than uranium.   There are several times in this article when the point is made that the world needs to change their attitudes towards renewable energy.   Obama and other people in power are spending billions on technologies that are not and will not yield as much energy as thorium will.   And which is why the article calls for a “Manhattan Project II” which will enable...