What are we going to do about this?! If you lose sleep thinking about global warming and clean energy, the Thorium Energy Alliance may be just the place for you. There is so much to learn. And there is reason to hope! All of this can be explored through the recorded talks from a variety of authors, scientists, engineers and lay people who have shared their knowledge through brief presentations at annual meetings of the Alliance over more than a decade. All of this material is accessible, even entertaining at times. The details and references in these presentations have added immensely to my own hundreds of hours of study over the last several years. I can't recommend this resource highly enugh.
The Thorium Energy Alliance has been the town square of the nuclear support community for over 20 years. At great personal expense to the founder, the Alliance has been instrumental in keeping the community connected and engaged. As a professional science writer, with three books on the subject coming out in 2024, the TEA has been my go-to group for information, insight, and support. I couldn't have done it without them!
I am from Toronto Canada but got interested in Thorium Energy Alliance and have attended several of their conferences. It was Kirk Sorenson who was the first to attract my attention with his excellent presentations. It was also people like Gordon McDowell who posted the talks he filmed after each conference. Also John Kutsch and Gordon both gave me the opportunity to participate as camera operator initially. I eventually decided to write a book that to this day has not found a publisher. I named it after the website the Energy Reality Project. I also created a Facebook Group and have I am grateful to John who was very kind to me.
The Thorium Energy Alliance has spearheaded a proactive pro-nuclear movement, organizing informative gatherings annually that serve as hotbeds for innovative ideas. These gatherings have empowered advocates for new nuclear technologies, particularly molten salt reactors and the use of thorium as fuel, enhancing their knowledge and effectiveness. Additionally, the Alliance has been instrumental in initiating credible projects aimed at developing new nuclear technologies.
The Thorium Energy Alliance has a LARGE variety of people who are dedicated in stopping pollution and climate change. There are PHDs and ordinary people too. Most donate their time. The some total of their research is enormous, free of political bias. They care about all of us. I am a lucky, lucky person who attended a lecture by Alex Canarra nearly 20 years ago. It made sense and got me on the right track.
I am a former project manager in the nuclear group at the Electric Power Research Institute. I am always impressed with how the Thorium Energy Alliance communicates about the many possibilities for different types of nuclear cycles, without bashing existing nuclear plants!
I am also impressed with how carefully they set their meetings to communicate. For example, in a meeting in St. Louis, they had a speaker who was quite straightforward about how difficult it is to get a permit for any mine in the United States. I always kind of knew that "China has the mining," but I did not know how we did this to ourselves.
The work on policies that will restore America's ability to work with critical materials and revive our energy industries has been great and hard fought.
TEA works for everyone by working for a better future for all.
I have volunteered for TEA for over a year now, and I'm impressed with the amount of work the executive director has done to accomplish the goals of this not-for profit organization. I enjoy being a part of furthering the goals; to provide an abundance of clean fuel to power the world. I was most impressed that TEA rolled out the plan for El Salvador's deployment of thorium energy for their country. In my experience working with not-for-profits, TEA is by far the hardest working bunch here, and I am lucky I'm a part of it as well.
Critically essential work. I have been helping since the very beginning in 2007. Thorium Energy Alliance is fulfilling a transcendental moral purpose. The world needs this much more than it realizes. Please help TEA do even more than it does now.
TEA is a professional, well run nonprofit will perhaps the most important goal in mind: development of a safe, affordable global power supply, the implementation of which will provide strategic materials (Rare Earth Elements), which are sorely needed for nearly every aspect of modern digital technology, particularly critical national defense systems. After attending TEA conferences, I have been impressed with their absolute dedication to this goal; you can be assured that they will work efficiently and tirelessly in pursuit of success.
I have observed Thorium Energy Alliance from a distance for about 10 years. My first exposure was about 2013 when I attended one of the first conferences with my father in his 80s. He was convinced of the importance of Liquid Salt Reactors - particularly LFTRs and an avid evangelist to anyone who would give him 3 minutes to hear about them. I listened to the excitement, but at that time all hope of getting Gen 4 reactors online seemed mainly theoretical. In my view it felt a little pie-in-the-sky. Last October, I attended the TEAC and discovered how dramatically things have changed! The advances in 10 years have been dramatic and the progress is exciting! If all TEA had been doing was reporting on progress, that would have been significant, but it seems this organization has been a gathering place where ideas could be shared freely and the progress encouraged and celebrated. I am not a scientist or an engineer, but thanks to TEA I am firmly convinced that Gen4 reactors are the best hope we have for low-carbon energy generation and a cooler planet. Thanks to TEA, I believe we just might achieve it.