Thorium reactors a silver bullet for our looming energy crisis? Like it or not, the world is facing a looming energy crisis as we continue to burn through the planet’s available fossil fuels at an alarming rate.
A gallon of gasoline that used to cost under a dollar back in the 80′s and early 90′s is now averaging over $4.00, placing financial strain on industry and consumers the world over. Researchers have been working feverishly in the past ten-years to try to find viable alternatives that can produce abundant energy. One such technology that is being looked at closely is liquid fluoride thorium reactors, a “breeder” power source that could provide enough energy to satisfy the world’s consumption indefinitely. While that may sound like a pipe-dream, science is showing how Thorium could eventually replace fossil-fuels all together in the next twenty-years if the world’s countries would get serious about development. Disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have given the public a bad taste in their mouths when it comes to nuclear energy.
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Even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, Penn State researchers have a proof-of-concept device that can split water and produce recoverable hydrogen. Ecotricity - the green energy company, supplier and generator of eco electricity and gas.