Thorium energy can help check CO2 and global warming, cut deadly air pollution, provide inexhaustible energy, and increase human prosperity. Our world is beset by global warming, pollution, resource conflicts, and energy poverty. Millions die from coal plant emissions. We war over mideast oil. Food supplies from sea and land are threatened. Developing nations' growth exacerbates the crises. Few nations will adopt carbon taxes or energy policies against their economic self-interests to reduce global CO2 emissions. Energy cheaper than coal will dissuade all nations from burning coal. Innovative thorium energy uses economic persuasion to end the pollution, to provide energy and prosperity to developing nations, and to create energy security for all people for all time. "This book presents a lucid explanation of the workings of thorium-based reactors. It is must reading for anyone interested in our energy future." Leon Cooper, Brown University physicist and 1972 Nobel laureate for superconductivity "As our energy future is essential I can strongly recommend the book for everybody interested in this most significant topic." George Olah, 1994 Nobel laureate for carbon chemistry
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Robert Hargraves has written articles and made presentations about the liquid fluoride thorium reactor and energy cheaper than from coal – the only realistic way to dissuade nations from burning fossil fuels. His presentation “Aim High” about the technology and social benefits of the liquid fluoride thorium reactor has been presented to audiences at Dartmouth ILEAD, Thayer School of Engineering, Brown University, Columbia Earth Institute, Williams College, Royal Institution, the Thorium Energy Alliance, the International Thorium Energy Association, Google, the American Nuclear Society, the President's Blue Ribbon Commission of America’s Nuclear Future, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. With coauthor Ralph Moir he has written articles for the American Physical Society Forum on Physics and Society: Liquid Fuel Nuclear Reactors (Jan 2011) and American Scientist: Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (July 2010). Robert Hargraves is a study leader for energy policy at Dartmouth ILEAD. He was chief information officer at Boston Scientific Corporation and previously a senior consultant with Arthur D. Little. He founded a computer software firm, DTSS Incorporated while at Dartmouth College where he was assistant professor of mathematics and associate director of the computation center. He graduated from Brown University (PhD Physics 1967) and Dartmouth College (AB Mathematics and Physics 1961).
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By Reese Palley
Format:Paperback
Anything from Robert Hargraves is worth reading....this one is a must as it wipes out all of the opposition to nuclear power. Read the book and understand how we all have been brainwashed by the fossil industry. There is no existential substitute for nuclear and Hargraves shows us how cheap it can be.
Reese Palley, Author THE ANSWER: Why Only Inherently Safe Mini Nuclear Power Plants Can Save The World.
Reese Palley, Author THE ANSWER: Why Only Inherently Safe Mini Nuclear Power Plants Can Save The World.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Chuck
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Dr. Hargraves has produced a truly useful book because he combines economics with the question of our future energy needs, and he does it in a way all levels of readers can understand. We are all concerned with the needed energy for our food, comfort, and quality of life and to find a way to have a clean and safe future at the same time. To some this seems a daunting conflict. It is easy to be deflected into many relatively unproductive directions trying to find the holy grail to answer this question. How can we have ample energy and a safe and clean environment? Dr. Hargraves explains how.
The answer has been around for a long time but a quirk of history turned us down other directions. "Thorium Energy Cheaper than Coal" is a book that shows us quite well how much safer, and less costly, abundant energy can be generated from Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors (called LFTR and Yes, Virginia, this is a nuclear reactor.) A LFTR is unlike any nuclear reactor you may think. Different from other reactors, this is not a high pressure plant constantly in need of a challenging containment vessel and potential water cooling in case of emergencies. The LFTR is sometimes called "walk away" safe. LFTRs hold the promise of providing the energy mankind requires for centuries without the air pollution of many other dense energy sources and at a far lower cost than the weak alternate energy sources. If that seems too good to be true, you will be surprised to learn there are even more benefits to developing our energy future around the plentiful element thorium.
Dr. Robert Hargraves does a great service in writing a book that is easily understandable by the general public and adequately introduces the concepts to economists, physicists and engineers at the same time. All levels of readers will be pleased with this book. But most of all, he brings a level of understanding to the energy question that is critical for any future successful policy -- he show that the best answer is also the right answer economically.
Buy this book, it will make a serious and lasting impact on your views about one of the most important issues in the future of mankind.
The answer has been around for a long time but a quirk of history turned us down other directions. "Thorium Energy Cheaper than Coal" is a book that shows us quite well how much safer, and less costly, abundant energy can be generated from Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors (called LFTR and Yes, Virginia, this is a nuclear reactor.) A LFTR is unlike any nuclear reactor you may think. Different from other reactors, this is not a high pressure plant constantly in need of a challenging containment vessel and potential water cooling in case of emergencies. The LFTR is sometimes called "walk away" safe. LFTRs hold the promise of providing the energy mankind requires for centuries without the air pollution of many other dense energy sources and at a far lower cost than the weak alternate energy sources. If that seems too good to be true, you will be surprised to learn there are even more benefits to developing our energy future around the plentiful element thorium.
Dr. Robert Hargraves does a great service in writing a book that is easily understandable by the general public and adequately introduces the concepts to economists, physicists and engineers at the same time. All levels of readers will be pleased with this book. But most of all, he brings a level of understanding to the energy question that is critical for any future successful policy -- he show that the best answer is also the right answer economically.
Buy this book, it will make a serious and lasting impact on your views about one of the most important issues in the future of mankind.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By Mike Carey
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
There is an alphabet soup of nuclear technologies being developed around the world, but Hargraves provides a detailed description of the cleanest, safest, and cheapest ones that can also burn up "spent" fuel and decommissioned weapons material. More technical and specific than POWER TO SAVE THE WORLD by Gwyneth Cravens, Hargraves provides a complete guide to the status of nuclear power development.
A thorium fueled molten salt reactor was demonstrated in the 1960's at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but uranium based reactors were developed instead, because they provided plutonium by-products for Cold War weapons. India and China have started development projects to pick up where we left off, partly because thorium is so much more available to them.
There are solutions for climate change, but time is running out while we cook the planet with fossil fuels.
A thorium fueled molten salt reactor was demonstrated in the 1960's at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but uranium based reactors were developed instead, because they provided plutonium by-products for Cold War weapons. India and China have started development projects to pick up where we left off, partly because thorium is so much more available to them.
There are solutions for climate change, but time is running out while we cook the planet with fossil fuels.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Energy
Excellent review of energy needs and sources, and their relative costs. A must read if you want to help save the planet from anthropogenic globle warming.
Published 8 days ago by morris bol
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential education
This book opened my eyes to alternatives in the polarized nuclear debate. Conventional nuclear power plants are almost a by-thought of the nuclear weapons industry. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Ames Gilbert
4.0 out of 5 stars
A must read for future energy advocates and nuclear nay-sayers
Lays out the unfortunate tale of how nuclear energy for peaceful purposes took the wrong direction and ended up at its current dead-end. Read more
Published 20 days ago by Tobi D. Mengle
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great book with some gaps
A great overview of the energy situation of the world and the drawbacks of different energy carriers. A convincing argumantation for the LFTR technology. Read more
Published 20 days ago by Robert Jaroslawski
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thorium future
The book clears the foggy misguided minds and gives us a clear pictures about the future energy needs of the world.
Published 1 month ago by Sandor Garai
5.0 out of 5 stars
A genuine effort to define a path of great potential
Dr. Hargraves makes a great effort to provide the rationale, amount of effort, risk and reward of a controversial but desperately needed source of clean? energy. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Joe WOF
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not "a book", reads more like "a project proposal"
Loads of detail, almost all bottom-up. No story. No human element.
If you want all the facts, this is probably the one to get. Read more
If you want all the facts, this is probably the one to get. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Anders Johansen
5.0 out of 5 stars
Must read for everybody who wants to participate in discussions on...
This may be a massive volume but there IS a lot of knowledge required if somebody wants to discuss energy policy knowledgeably. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Simon Aegerter
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very hopeful read
Robert Hargrieves brings together a varirty of methods used and proposed to produce energy for the future. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Robert L. Pattison
1.0 out of 5 stars
Almost bought the book until I read
Almost bought the book until I read in the description: "Millions die from coal plant emissions." What a crock. Read more
Published 4 months ago by R. Powell
