25 Responses

1. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD . . ABOUT TIME!
   THANK YOU CHINA 

2. I ate an apple. Bascially, I ate nuclear energy.

3. The idea of Thorium reactors has been around for decades. One big reason
   why the big superpower countries haven’t been using it yet is..they can’t
   make nuclear weapons out of it. This is a fact.
   Solar and wind energy isn’t going to meet up to our current energy
   consumption. Not by far. We need some kind of reactor like this.

4. What about Fusion?…

5. why the fuck aren’t we investing everything into the salt reactors! seems
   very promising and that young genius taylor wilson is working on it too i
   believe

6. But the thorium has to come from somewhere, right? And we don’t have
   infinite amounts of it…
   Please, correct me if I’m wrong.

7. I am an environmental activist and I support Nuclear power. Climate change
   is the biggest challenge currently facing humanity.

8. I think the whole solar roadways idea is pretty cool

9. put satellites in low solar orbit
   make them collect energy and send to earth

   –> profit

10. Happy you finally made a video about this! :D been “spamming” this idea on
    your page for a while and i think that a page like yours should really try
    and promote this idea on mainstream media! If WE the people attempt to
    convince our governments that we would much rather they invest in this type
    of technology that another big ol’ coal mine or fracking because they are
    much more efficient, renewable and green, with the right pressure behind it
    they would have no choice but to potentially meet our demands! I envision a
    world where everything could be powered by thorium, not just our street
    lights, homes & companies but our cars and all other transportation methods
    as well :)
    Please! +DNews +VICE News +Motherboard +TestTube +Vsauce SPREAD THE IDEA
    AND LET’S USE OUR COLLECTIVE POWER TO PREPARE OUR GOVERNMENTS FOR THE
    FUTURE SO THEY MAY MEET OUR DEMANDS AND DO WHAT MUST BE DONE RATHER THAN
    ACT IN FAVOUR OF GREED AND MONEY!

11. Nuclear fission is the stepping stone to the real future energy source,
    Fusion.

12. What crap, look at Japan, look at geothermal energy!

13. WHY THE FUCK IS CHINA THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT IS BEING
    INNOVATIVE AND PROGRESSIVE WITH CLEAN ENERGY IN THIS GODDAM PLANET!!!!!

14. Nice quick video about nuclear energy.

15. I just can’t get behind nuclear. This sounds a lot better then current
    nuclear implementations but it’s still just too risky. So much land is made
    uninhabitable when nuclear plants melt down not to mention what happens to
    the environment and fauna trapped within that land.
    To me, unless you have a way to clean up the mess, don’t make one.

16. Giant Magnetic Turbines Underground, stacked on top of each other

    Or

    Small Magnetic Motors inside of every home in America so that no one
    relies of Power Plants and a blackout will only effect 1 house at a time
    and the energy is free

    You can build a Magnetic Motor in your home right now, and it cost
    under $100 bucks depending how big you build it, I have one and it works
    great

17. Wonderful overly simplistic propaganda for young people. Que nuclear energy
    executive ringing his hands “Excellent…”

18. as far as i know solar and hydro is the future….its cleanest and its
    safest…..

19. I hope this video is accurate but Discover does not have a good track
    record with it comes to science reporting. 

20. “Thorium” thats what comes out of Thor ? :D

21. Still waiting for them to take. The fission power plants that NASA created
    to be used in civilian power plants. That would be the safest and cheapest.
    Since it literally takes radiation absorbs it into a special material. That
    changes it into electricity. So no need for steam, and no need to change
    out rods. Since you would get energy, until it was no longer radioactive.
    Maybe they can find away to suck the radiation out of the material as
    well. But meh, until then.

22. Thorium has been around for a while now, yet we have to wait another
    decade?

23. I know this video was mainly about nuclear energy, but what about the
    solution for storing solar energy for the night usage of a country? We have
    a really good example here in Chile, in wich they are bulding a powerplant
    that uses the solar power harvested from the desert, uses that electricity
    to pump the water to artificial lakes on the mountains (plus they have
    surplus energy that goes to the cities), and at night that water is
    returned to the ocean bt gravity, producing more power on water turbines.
    Of course you would need special terrain requirements, but I still think
    it’s pretty clever, and it doesn’t have as huge as an impact as dams

24. This is what I know about the current power industry. Avoiding coal and
    natural gas for CO2 emissions, that leaves hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, and
    geothermal. Wind and solar are inconstant in how much they can produce they
    are not stable enough to power a country even with huge amounts of
    additional storage. Hydro cause huge problems in the fish migrations and
    flooding, I haven’t heard any new plants being built in the US. Geothermal
    really only work and fault lines or active heat source. Nuclear power is
    safe and reliable but fuel storage can be a problem. The one sad part about
    thorium is it requires high energy neutrons and will need a neutron source
    most likely. One of my Nuclear Engineering professors told me the best part
    about thorium is its not call plutonium. Otherwise we could use uranium 238
    for nearly the same thing. The most promising power source is fusion power
    but it’s been 50 years away for 50 years and still is. Plus the cost of
    construction and mass production of the hydrogen isotopes it needs for
    power is massively expensive, I’d like to see it mastered in my life time
    but good luck. So the best option we have left is a mix of Nuclear, Solar,
    Wind and Geothermal all working together to support the power grid
    lessening difficulties other power sources present.

25. The entire reason this type of reactor is not in use today is do to the
    fact that you can’t create nuclear bombs from it! This is the entire reason
    why it was not picked when we had 2 choices. That’s selfish to put the
    entire world in jeopardy when theses nuclear power plants we use today meld
    down… It’s a sad sad choice.