Late Notes

So I was surfing the net looking for info and found out something kind of heavy, heavy in that it's revealing, like if you were a dragon slayer you’d be paying keen attention. I was looking to make the argument that there is more than enough water on the planet to sustain billions and billions and billions of people. Couple years ago a graph in National Geographic showed how if you took the seven billion humans of today, placed them shoulder to shoulder, front to back, we would all fit in a boundary as large as Los Angeles County. When you take the size of LA County and place it alongside the size of all the oceans of the world, you realize that the notion of there not being enough water in the world to be utterly ridiculous. But that’s salt water idiot! We can’t drink it and it’s too expensive to desalinate! So then I looked into the state of desalinization, and as you might imagine, to push ocean through a filter, so that the only thing on the other side is pure H2O, takes lots of energy. And I was going through the top ten articles on Google, and in the comments to one, someone mentioned Thorium. And I was like, what? It turns out that at the onset of the nuclear age, the 1950s, there were various ways being tested for how to utilize power from a nuclear reaction. Of course the US Military, in the white-knuckled days of the Cold War, was keen to find the latest and greatest energy source. One project led to another and it was found in 1960 that molten salt reactors were safe and clean with a myriad of pluses alongside all the scary stuff associated with Uranium. But the Uranium process resulted in material for bombs so the military nudged the molten salt approach out of the way, and the nuclear lobby took hold, and humanity has been denied molten salt reactors ever since. If you say, “We don’t need no more nuclear energy!” you should know that solar and wind alongside molten salt are laughable, like saying you and your skateboard can beat a Lamborghini in the quarter mile, almost too ridiculous to create a metaphor. It’s the energy needs for every single human being, meaning no human ever again would ever die from being too cold or too hot. Molten salt reactors are how we were meant to go, and the same forces which denied Tesla, denied molten salt energy. And so what are we going to do about it? We’ll see.