07-13-16 - The Argument for Thorium Reactors
Presentation by David Johanssen:
Nuclear energy is powerful, but it can look bad, given persistent waste storage issues and the threat of proliferation.
So when the topic of thorium nuclear energy comes up at a party, or in a webpage comment string, it elicits angry dismissals, or heaps of praise.
The idea of building small, thorium-based nuclear reactors – thought to be dramatically safer, cheaper, cleaner and terror-proof than our current catalog of reactors – can be shooed away as fringe by some.
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Links from last week (Which no one got to see, due to the WiFi being unavailable,)
Solar System
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Use this Solar Eruptions, Solar Wind Watch, Weather | S0 News Jul.6.2016 - YouTube
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Video - Mercury & Venus: Two most hostile planets - YouTube
Video Planet Earth | Birth of the Earth - HD Documentary 2014 - YouTube
Giant Planet Jupiter LOW AUDIO - New 2015 - YouTube
earth rotating into night HD - YouTube
Earth's interior and plate tectonics - YouTube
Plate Tectonics in action - YouTube
Neal Adams - Science: 01 - Conspiracy: Earth is Growing! - YouTube
Video Planet Mars Discovery | Full Documentary HD - YouTube
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Animation slide show Saturn | in 4K Resolution - YouTube
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The Science, Technology and Nature get-together,
This Wednesday July13th @ 11:00am to 1:00pm
Community room, Puente Viejo on Calzada de la Aurora #52
Puente Viejo is a guarded community. The guard typically lets you walk or drive through. If not, sign in. Any problem, have them call David McClintock - 415-112-5202 or Doug Wind 415-109-4627
(Doug Wind, our chief presenter, is presently on holiday, so an assortment of members will carry the banner until he returns. To be added or removed from this list, please contact: stephen.goodfellow@gmail.com)