In light of my previous activity on the forums, I decided to do something new with my personal blog. Ive gotten a bit lazy on making this personal, given I dont care as much about my personal life and I know most of you dont either. So here is the new plan for what I will be doing here

Im going to be using this blog to discuss the future! Everything about the future! I got this Idea after talking to others about the space elevator Feld0 is presently involved in. Engineering and physics are a major interest of mine, so I figured I could appeal to you all by using my interest and knowledge to talk with you folks about the future progression of mankind! Sounds exciting!

Im going to start with opinions on nuclear reactors <3. I personally love the Idea of them. They are clean, efficient, and under moderation, extremely safe. Compared to renewable energy sources, This is the most space efficient, high energy yielding plant humans have ever invented. (Whats ironic is it still runs on the same machine that humas have been using for centuries, the steam generator. Kind of cool how something so simple is still at the forefront of human technology). Now of course, nuclear reactors are notorious for stereotypes of exploding, and being radioactive. while there is some truth to this, it isn't as big a deal as people would make it out to be.

Nuclear reactors dont explode, they have meltdowns. Thats exactly what it sounds like. It melts down... Through the reactor... Through the Reactor chamber... through the earths crust...

The only time one of these plants ever esplode, is if you are using a graphite reactor, akin to the design used by the Russians in the 60s, especially in the Chernobyl Incident, and another accident involving a nuclear submarine that never left the harbor.

These plants use radioactive materials, but it emits nothing more than that of what the sun puts out. The only difference is that Earth has a magnetic shield to defend us, whereas we need lead and concrete to shield us from the radioactivity. Currently, this source is Uranium, which you may or may not know that we are running out off. Actually, Uranium is about as rare as platinum or gold (could you imagine burning gold? )

So where does the future come into all this? What if I told you that there was an element as common as dirt, that you could hold a lifetime supply of energy of this element in your hand, and it has a more badass name than Uranium? It exists, its not science fiction. This magical element is called Thorium (like the god of thunder), and over 500,000 tonnes are thrown out per day. That much thorium could power the earth for Centuries. CENTURIES! And we are throwing it away!

The fantastic part is we could utilize this element with little modification to our current nuclear facilities. It all involves a reactor called LFTR (lifter). I could talk about this thing for eons, but Id rather leave you a link to a video that explains it all in under 5 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY

So what is your opinion on nuclear energy? Where do you see mankind filling its growing energy needs in the next 50 years? post in comments below! Id love to hear your opinions.