Before celebrating the genius that is the P4B…
I have a video coming out tomorrow here and on Rumble. In it you’ll hear that my voice is starting to fail. As of this morning it is gone completely. I can’t even croak.
The good news is that I don’t have the Wuhan Red Death. But boy am I messed up. As I moped through making breakfast a lyric came to mind that I haven’t heard in almost 50 years. But it’s kind of funny. “I think I have a cold in my nose. Life gets tee-juss, don’t it?
It’s a line in a piece from Carson Jay Robison. The radio revived it and gave it some airtime in the 70’s. If you have time, give it a listen here.
The Power Curve
It’s always rewarding when things I’ve said about the past, the present and the future get traction after I’ve said them. It can be days, months or years before my assertions gain validation.
It’s most frustrating when I have a real ah-hah moment, and put a show in the can, and schedule it for release the next day, only to see FOX news splash it about that night. I think that might be an example of the universal mind at work.
But the real benefit to you is that you can rest easy knowing that you are in the company of cutting edge thinkers when you follow the P4B and the Free Zone Communiqué.
Probably the most rewarding see-I-told-you moments come when I see the evolution of the the thorium reactor movement. Once a bastard technology,1 we are learning more and more that we should have kept at it since we had a reactor going at Oak Ridge in the 1960s. But it is coming back in a big way now.
I’ve been a strident proponent of Liquid Fluorine Thorium Reactors (LFTR) since being so marked you as a geek who didn’t REALLY understand nuclear energy. I once had a conversation with a young man who was pursuing his doctorate in nuclear energy. When I mentioned LFTRs he gave me a condescending smile, complimented my knowledge of nuke history and told me all the reasons LFTRs don’t work.
Now that bright young thing works for companies like Apple and Microsoft aggressively pursuing their first LFTR, or what they call molten salt reactors.
What got me back on the LFTR jag today was the video embedded below. If you want to see my views on LFTRs just search my Substack with LFTR in the searchline. For one example, hit this button.
Video and footnotes below links
These are examples of what you’ll find at the Po River Christmas Shop. Click here to see it all.
We’re celebrating our new sponsor, THE HERO COMPANY! Please support their mission to help match veterans with service dogs! $1.5 MILLION so far! Just click this banner to see all their cool stuff.
Find us!!!
The P4B on Rumble!
Listen on Amazon!
*Some links represent a financial relationship with the P4B and benefit the site at no extra cost to you.
Send all inquiries to poriverproductions@gmail.com
LFTR Video
LFTRs like all nuclear technology had issue to work through. It seems the biggest were stable power generation and creating alloys to withstand the heat and salt. No on wanted to invest in solving the problems because of the scale LFTRs work on and the fact that they didn’t produce plutonium.
But with today’s computer technology, controlling power output would be child’s play. And the Chinese seem confident they’ve solved the alloy problem. They have two experimental units online and may have already brought a commercial unit up.