Thorium Power Plants Could Solve The World's Energy Problems

If there is one conspiracy theory that holds its water, it is that the energy industry is not going to allow any cheap, abundant supply other than those they can control, to be set loose on the market. Moreover, those governments of the industrialized world only understand the ramifications of setting humanity free of these energy barons based on what they have been feeding back into the democracies since the mid 1950s: If free or cheap and abundant energy supplies were to suddenly displace conventional sources like oil, coal and natural gas, the result would be economic catastrophe.

Similarly, when the banks warned the US government of riots and martial law if they were allowed to fail, both political parties bellied-up to what we now call the 'bail out'.

So, thorium or cold fusion or tapping Tesla's energy bank in the upper atmosphere may all be possible, but they will not be allowed to be realized. Not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow.