Have any of you heard of Thorium, seems a couple people thinks it will do better than uranium for our power needs. Link Link

well thats a relief! we're not as totally screwed as what i thought ..

Thorium was abandoned yes, but does not yeild nearly as much energy as uranium, you need the uranium the start the whole process AFAIK and the thorium in its natural state is a stable atom (only slightly radioactive) which,from the uranium (Shall we call it catalyst), is converted into an unstable isotope of thorium, which eventually becomes Uranium in any case.

AFAIK i dont think they never managed to get the whole Thorium reactor thing right before it was abandoned. I read up on this in my school days so i'm a bit rusty on this topic. (wasn't the LFTR called something else though?)

I read something briefly lately about water powered cars, through the electrolisis of H2O => HHO the HHO is burned and forms H2O again. A possibly Viable a substitute for the petrol/diesel portion in hybrid cars. how effective this is though i'm not sure. i'll do some research and post it up sometime. Murphy's law we'll go from Global warming to Global Humidity...... HAHAHA

I hav'nt read much on the topic but it seems that designs like the liquid-fluoride-reactor
don't need Uranium to start the cycle. The Breeder_reactor is another design (maby the one you were thinking of) that can run of thorium.