This is not about digital media, or programming tips, or the latest cool app, but I’m going to point to it anyway. From the Telegraph is this article on Thorium as an energy source. Just when you thought there was no magic bullet, you read that one kilo of Thorium will produce as much energy as 200 kilos of uranium. The downside is that it is clean and safe. Oh sorry, I meant ‘upside’!
Yeah it sounds too good to be true, just like fusion and other things that were gonna let me take a long drive without that sphincter-tightening feeling that I’m eating significantly into the down payment for my first house. But there’s a lot of solid science behind this, and the resistance so far seems to be from the ‘entrenched interests’-remember them?- who really would prefer that we didn’t look into Thorium because of all the money they have spent on potentially grossly inferior methods of producing energy. Shit the money to just determine if this is viable is nada. Maybe Google and Apple should form a joint venture.
Hey: in the spirit of the butterfly who flaps his wings and changes things on the other side of the world (I mean YOU, not me) go read the article, write your congressman, march in the streets, use “Thorium” in your next graffiti masterpiece, or promote it on Reddit because it appears to be hitting a nerve on some level, fast.
With all this media, has the strength of ideas dissolved?
