Amyris’s breakthroughs in bioengineering--and its plans to make biofuels from Brazilian sugarcane--promised to transform how the world’s businesses produce energy, cosmetics, and medicine. Then reality (and Wall Street) got in the way. The climb up the steel steps is dizzying--like ascending the...

Gordon McDowell had a hugely successful kickstarter earlier this year as he asked for funding of a professional, up-to-date with the newest and greatest Thorium content, promotional video for Thorium and the LFTR. Now he wishes to travel to Shanghai for the Thorium Energy Conference there later...

Interesting blog post by Rick Maltese: This recent article posted in news website Canada.com and this This is the new video (see below ) posted on youtube by Gordon McDowell that was part of a Washington D.C. conference “Commercializing Small Modular Reactors for Domestic and International...

1. Mining Weekly - India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) would permit private miners to process beach sand and supply monazite tailings to the government-owned Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) to increase the latter’s capacity to extract thorium and uranium. At present, private miners were...

The new book by Robert Hargraves is titled THORIUM: energy cheaper than coal. Read the summary of the book below and watch two videos from the author. Thorium energy can help us check CO2 and global warming, cut deadly air pollution, provide inexhaustible energy, and increase human prosperity....

Candu Energy Inc. (TSX:SNC) said Thursday it has signed an expanded agreement with China National Nuclear Corp.'s subsidiary companies to continue work on using recycled uranium and thorium as alternative fuels for new reactors. The company said the 24-month agreement is expected to result in a...

Germany needs a master plan to bring together central and local government policy which gives investors and project firms certainty if the $420bn is to be found to finance a decisive shift to green power. AS MANY know, Germany has been captured by their Greenies. They arrange armadas of...

The western world has within its capacity far more than enough rare earths (including heavy rare earths) to meet its own industrial demand. It is an unwillingness to process material containing thorium which is ultimately impeding our high tech manufacturing sector.

The study, conducted by Stanford University PhD graduate John Ten Hoeve and Stanford civil engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson, to be published in the July 17 issue of Energy and Environmental Science concluded that the global health impact of the release of radiation from the Fukushima...

Stored solar energy is how one can think about all types of fossil fuels. Plants convert solar radiation (light) energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis. Layers of plant matter build up and, throughout millions of years, it converts into coal, oil, and natural gas. It is noteworthy to...