przycinek.usa
09.06.10, 03:52
Nie wiem, czy dobrze zrozumialem tego typa. O pisze mniej wiecej tak, ze w
weglu jest Tor i moznaby go wyjac z tego wegla, a potem zamienic ten tor na
energie za pomoca ktorej moznaby wytworzyc benzyne z tego pozostalego wegla i
bedzie i paliwo i energia, bez wydobycia kropli ropy. Cytat ponizej, a ja sie
pytam szanownych kolegow - specjalistow o komentarz, czy to jest w ogole
mozliwe i o czym ten typ gada, bo cos ostatnio mu nie wierze.
# We have a lot of coal in this country. It contains Thorium, which is a
natural substance that can be used to build nuclear piles. Said technology
was developed and built more than 30 years ago - this is not "pie in the sky"
technology.
# Each ton of coal we burn up contains 13 times as much energy as that
liberated by combustion of the carbon in said Thorium. We could thus receive
the same electrical energy we gain by burning the coal through extracting the
Thorium and using the nuclear energy to produce power. With the rest of the
energy, the other 12/13ths, we could then extract hydrogen from seawater
(which we have lots of) and convert the remaining coal to either diesel fuel
or gasoline. To put a not-fine-point on this, we throw away more than 100
billion gallons of gasoline (after conversion losses) in thorium tailings
alone. That is damn close to all of our existing gasoline consumption - with
ZERO oil being drilled. (PS: Those are conservative estimates -
mathematically, it's 200 billion gallons!)