Andrew Yang Wants Thorium Nuclear Power. Here's What That Means.

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40. I guess "moonshot" is relative. I have a considerable amount of expertise in the technologies that

i seriously doubt that you have the level of expertise that I have in those areas. I envision can be used to make henceforth unknown composites (and the key piece will be one particular type of composite). If you can't possibly imagine those things then there is no reason why I should try to explain them further. There are many things in common use today that at earlier points in history were "beyond imagination".

You can call people "ignorant" all you want to, the fact is the general public and a number of scientists have issues with the current design of nuclear plants. It is perfectly safe?, we have only had Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukishima in the last half century. If populations had not been evacuated from near all, there would have been plenty dead, in fact since the origins of some cancers and illnesses like respiratory illnesses are often difficult to trace, how can you say that the three meltdowns that we have had did not kill a lot of people? Until human beings can be eliminated from the mix and the robotic controls that replace them are 100% failsafe, it is totally asinine to call nuclear energy 100% safe, it can never be under those conditions.

Where did you get the $2 trillion wasted on renewable energy? That sounds a bit fantastical.

I actually agree with you that no significant public funds should be spent on renewables research. I would rather see determined private funding, that is the only way that I see the end results that I believe are possible becoming reality. Public funding at anything beside a minor level opens the process up to the unpredictability of politics, you seem to be an avid supporter of Senator Warren, I have just contributed to her campaign, but here we are trading punches over energy policy, imagine what happens when republicans get thrown into the mix - such is why I believe a national policy on renewables research is bound for failure, especially if large amounts of money are to be spent.

On thorium deposits, a lot of mineral deposits that are on the seabed and on land originated from deep within the earth where conditions were more suitable for their formation. I am not a Geologist, so like you, I can't say much about the distribution of Thorium.