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Why is there no Main Stream Media reporting....
Interlocking Directorates
Media corporations share members of the board of directors with a variety of other large corporations, including banks, investment companies, oil companies, health care and pharmaceutical companies and technology companies. This list shows board interlocks for the following major media interests:
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The Basics
.... This thorium fuel cycle carries with it a number of important natural properties some of which contrast sharply with the uranium fuel cycle:
-At no point in the thorium cycle – from mining to waste – can fuel or waste products be used as bomb material in any way;
-The thorium fuel cycle is inherently incapable of causing a meltdown according to the laws of physics; in nuclear reactor parlance, the fuel is said to contain passive safety features;
-Thorium-based fuels do not require conversion or enrichment – two essential phases of the uranium fuel cycle that are exceedingly expensive, and create proliferation risk;
-Thorium fuel cycle waste material consists mostly of 233-uranium, which can be recycled as fuel (with minor actinide content decreased 90-100%, and with plutonium content eliminated entirely);
-Thorium-based fuels are significantly energy efficient;
-Thorium fuel cycle waste material is radiotoxic for tens of years, as opposed to the thousands of years with today’s standard radioactive waste;
-Thorium fuel designs exist today that can be used in all existing nuclear reactors;
-Thorium exists in greater abundance and higher concentrations than uranium making it much less expensive and environmentally-unobtrusive to mine;
These facts have many serious implications for the efficiency and security of energy delivery in the United States, and the world. SOURCE
Originally posted by ParkerCramer
reply to post by coolhanddan
Awesome post, S&F for you.......
Like a previous poster, I believe, if this is true, and truly workable, we will never see it in our lifetimes, and that is so sad........................
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Amaterasu
Your argument is completely nullified by THIS
And a farmer charges money for his vegetables for labour. There will always be labour. If you want to equate everything to energy you can. Me typing is taking energy converted from food. Does limitless energy change the fact that I have to eat? No.
Does limitless energy change the amount of arable land in the world? No. Does limitless energy change the amount of finite resources that we have and consume? No. Limitless energy would not shatter the world in the way you are describing.
EX. Scientists are paid for their thought processes. No matter the energy produced in the world they still have to think. There will always be jobs, there will always be money. You cannot equate every going on in the world as a representation of energy expanded. (well, you can but it doesn't mean anything when applied to real life) All it is is a statistical representation of what we expend. It has no application to the monetary system.
Infinite energy means absolutely nothing in regards to dropping currency, if anything it would spark new innovation, new jobs, new processes and about a million other 'new' things. Which would all create new markets and new ways of making money.
We don't (completely) base money on the cost of power as it is now. So why would we when power is free?
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Movescamp
The problem with your statement is that energy only dates back a couple centuries, while war, trade, money, control, sanctions and a plethora of other items that make up your argument date back much further. The question is, is how much history are you considering?
I agree, limiting energy can choke out unfavoured states, so can a number of other controls. It is not the be all end all to political control. North Korea is a good example of an unfavoured state being hampered by energy availability, but what about Iran? Seems they have a lot of oil yet they still have energy issues.
You seem to forget what an exciting time in robotics we're living in. We can cast off Human labor to our machines. So the fact that we see a confluence of energy/machines/global contact/ethics means that now is our window of opportunity.
So limitless energy is clearly capable of making a HUGE difference.
Oh, it will spark vast innovation, open opportunities to apply one's bliss, but money WILL vanish.
Well given that any money value is arbitrarily set to begin with (else inflation/deflation would not take place), and given that all it accounts for is energy...
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Amaterasu
You seem to forget what an exciting time in robotics we're living in. We can cast off Human labor to our machines. So the fact that we see a confluence of energy/machines/global contact/ethics means that now is our window of opportunity.
Which is limited to the steel ore and oil used in manufacturing and maintaining the robotics.
So limitless energy is clearly capable of making a HUGE difference.
I don't see why the corporate model would have to change if companies were able to produce low cost energy.
Oh, it will spark vast innovation, open opportunities to apply one's bliss, but money WILL vanish.
The usefulness of money and energy supply do not correlate. Explain why the money system would be dropped. Does limited amounts of rare earth metals have no value in this brave new world you propose? Not everything in this world is infinite, water supply for one, metals, oil (plastics, etc.) food, etc.
You are describing a world that has infinite everything. We don't have that.
Well given that any money value is arbitrarily set to begin with (else inflation/deflation would not take place), and given that all it accounts for is energy...
I agree that it is arbitrary. But I do not agree that it is solely tied to energy. Money existed before energy consumerism, sorry. And as I said, currency forms just about anywhere people are forced to live amongst another.
And as I stated, not everything in the world is infinite, even if energy were to be. So you cannot have some place where everything is limitless, even if energy is.
Lets hypothesize that we developed space travel that let us mine infinite resources from other planets. You would still have trade, jobs, markets and a currency system to represent the work involved with those systems.
What you're describing is something long off into the future that we are nowhere near achieving even with unlimited energy.
Originally posted by boncho
If these technologies existed, and they were able to be reproduced (especially at the consumer level) how would anyone suppress that?
Originally posted by Movescamp
reply to post by boncho
Let me give you an example. Henry ford paid government officials to pave over railroad tracks. Just because you don't have any historical context doesn't mean it's not true. Can you prove their is no supression? I can prove there is. When is the only time in U.s. History the supreme court ordered a mass book burning?