Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Renewable Energy is The Scam We All Fell For" video.

Thorium is NOT fissile. It is the feedstock for a U-233 reactor -- a BREEDER reactor design. Only at the end of funding did the scientists admit that they could NEVER get the molten salt design to work. (1980 ) What was the problem? Without fuel pellet designs, the fission products were ALWAYS destroying the containment bucket. So the reactor had to be constantly stopped and new test materials inserted in an attempt to find anything that could survive the conditions. Ultimately it was determined that absolutely NOTHING could ever last long enough to make the kettle last long enough for commercial electrical power. The Soviets shut their parallel program down within months of the Americans -- having obtained the exact same results. Thorium will ALWAYS be 5-years away from commercialization. BTW, U-233 is the WORST proliferation risk imaginable. It has the lowest critical mass requirement for a bomb -- with the least sophistication required for same. ( Little Boy @ one quarter the size with twice the blast. ) And Carbon Dioxide is PLANT FERTILIZER. As its partial pressure drops, crop yields in the tropics will drop, and drop, and drop. MILLIONS will starve. More death than World War II. But that's okay -- 'cause the cult says we're saving the planet.
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@FrainBart_main That never stopped the USA or USSR from achieving good results. In this case -- timing is everything. Crafting Pu-239 has the exact same 'problem' that you've brought up -- side reactions. As is obvious, side reactions have never stopped the players from generating Pu-239. Either way, thorium has ALWAYS been a bust. The entire salt concept is a dead end. It, the bucket of fission products, just destroys every containment material in the periodic table. Yeah, they've ALL been tried.
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@FrainBart_main The dudes I'm quoting had unlimited budgets and a lifetime to find the magic stuff. In their own words they admitted that no such beast exists. The Soviets went down the exact same path with the same results. The key to both Pu-239 and U-233 is not tricky. It entails not leaving the breeding host to reside in the flux all that long... typically mere weeks, at best. This then entails a LOT of chemical processing as most of the mass flow is clogged with host metal. However it does NOT require staggering sophistication. The literature indicates that the Americans got U-232 levels down to parts per million -- which is WAY beyond the requirement for a back pack nuke. For a suicide trooper, none of your concerns about health compute in the first place. And a suicide bomber with a backpack nuke is EXACTLY what freaked the Americans and Soviets even back forty-years ago.
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97% came from a Political Cartoonist right out of his ear. Thorium produces U-233 which is what is burned -- so the reactor design is a BREEDER. It NEVER WORKED. You can read the experts ( circa 1980 ) admit when their funding was cut that they could NEVER get the design to work. It only works on the chalk board.
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@traumateaminternational4732 A thorium reactor is really a U-233 reactor. Thorium is NOT fissile. It has to be BRED into U-233 before energy, via fission, becomes available. ALL breeders have proved to be a financial nightmare to design. So much so that Congress cut all funding -- after DECADES of failure. Thorium has been only five-years into the future all of my life. The plug was pulled in the late 70's -- forty-years ago. The experts admitted every material tested was a BUST. And they tried everything in the Periodic Table. There is NO HOPE for the design. You can't contain 'Hot' Fluorine ions. In this case, hot means millions of degrees Centigrade. Such ions are the natural consequence of absorbing the recoil of fissioning U-233 atoms.
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@foobarrel9046 NO. Every MSRE was a BUST. They had to be repeatedly shut down for repairs because their containment buckets were being destroyed at a rapid clip. This reality was NEVER publicized at the time. And it still is not widely known. Hence so many of the loopy posts right here in this thread.
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@traumateaminternational4732 You can get a so-called Thorium reactor to run. You just can't keep it running and you can't make it economic. The Soviets and Americans threw twenty-five years at it and came up with NOTHING. The thorium cycle has been only 60 months away all of my life.
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