Thorium can meet the world’s energy demands without CO2

If you agree that we should curb the global warming, then please read the Newsletter: Global Rescue.

We can either continue to destroy the Earth with overpopulation, overconsumption and pollution and then find another planet and start from scratch – or we can choose another and better solution.

We can turn the tide and curb global warming by not polluting the air, water and soil. The most effective way would be to reduce population growth, consume and pollute less – intelligent evolution.

At a climate summit (2006) in Nairobi the former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan said: The leaders of the world show a frightening lack of leadership when it comes to global warming. We have to do more to cut down the emission of greenhouse gases. Since then it has become worse, and since 1950 the global population has increased from 2.5 to 6.8 billion humans.

Thorium can replace uranium and the polluting fossil fuels. Thorium is CO2 free, cheap and beneficial to both the climate and the economy. In Greenland there is sufficient thorium to cover 90,000 years of Greenland-Danish energy consumption, and there is thorium in the world for 500-1000 years of global energy requirements. The waste is minimal; only 4 grams of thorium is needed to cover one person’s annual energy supply. (Read about thorium on www.itheo.org)

Executive Director John Kutsch, Thorium Energy Alliance: I think if we saw this energy problem as being as existential as I believe it to be – we could get an MSR (Thorium Molten Salt Reactor) back on line in 5 years, commercialized in less than 10 – add 5 years to those numbers if we just have to rely on getting funding from traditional sources. But it is happening – public, private and military – in USA, Japan, Brazil, France, and Canada.

Japan is working on an MSR thorium reactor and is expecting to have a 10 trillion dollar thorium industry by 2060, and India expects to cover 30% of its future energy supply with thorium.

Both Bill Gates and Al Gore participated in the thorium conference (TEAC2) in March 2010 at Google headquarter in California. At the next thorium conference (ThEC2010) to be held at the Royal British Institution in London 17-20 October 2010, experts from all over the world will attend to discuss thorium energy, which can save the world from a climatic disaster and benefit the economy at the same time. I intend to participate, and I am looking forward to hearing more about the possibilities of thorium.

The British environmentalist James Lovelock says: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change. When we see the way things are going in a world where economic greed and political irresponsibility have replaced common sense, he would seem to be right.

GLOBAL ALARM ASSOCIATION

Jonna Vejrup Carlsen