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Executive  Summary:  

U.S.  Development  of  Affordable  Clean  Energy    

that   is  Cheaper  than  Coal    

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” President John F. Kennedy

A  problem  with  most  traditional  natural  energy  resources,  such  as  coal  and  oil,  is  that  they  are  cheap  only  when  they  are  abundant,  and  expensive  when  they  are  not.  These  peaks  and  valleys  in  our  energy  markets  are  a  result  of  accessibility  and  abundance.  Simply  put,  the  more  abundant  an  energy  source  is,  and  the  easier  it  is  to  access,  the  more  affordable  it  is.  But  interrupt  supply,  or  reduce  it,  and  prices  skyrocket.  

Embracing  fossil  fuels,  along  with  their  constant  boom  and  bust  cycle,  is  a  long-­‐term  energy  plan  that  will  have  our  economy  riding  the  roller  coaster  of  success  and  failure  respectively  in  times  of  boom  and  bust.  It  is  not  a  long-­‐term  plan  to  provide  any  type  of  lasting  stability  to  the  markets.  Fossil  fuels  simply  are  neither  abundant  enough  nor  accessible  enough.  

What  we  need  is  a  clean  energy  resource  that  is  abundant,  accessible,  safe,  reliable,  and  affordable.  

Until  now,  energy  that  was  cheap  tended  to  be  the  dirtiest  (solid  and  liquid  fossil  fuels),  and  energy  that  is  clean  (renewables)  was  the  most  expensive.  Expensive  energy  puts  the  brakes  on  the  economy  and  hurts  those  that  can  least  afford  it,  the  poor,  by  increasing  our  cost  of  living.  Dirty  energy  hurts  our  environment  and  our  health  and  is  not  a  sustainable  long-­‐term  policy  either.  

We  are  at  an  energy  and  environment  crossroads:  we  want  clean  energy,  but  we  do  not  want  to  pay  any  more  for  it.  If  we  sacrifice  our  economy  by  the  government’s  mandating  the  use  of  expensive  clean  energy  technologies  to  improve  our  health,  many  of  us,  including  our  poor,  will  not  be  able  to  afford  our  energy  bills  for  gasoline  and  electricity.    Our  neighborhoods  will  suffer,  and  eventually  the  health  effects  of  poverty  caused  by  the  unavailability  of  cheap  and  abundant  energy  will  negate  any  benefits  of  a  cleaner  environment.  

Thorium:  A  Lifetime  of  Energy  in  the  palm  of  your  hand!  

And  it  is  not  just  our  bills  for  direct  energy  consumption  that  go  up.    Higher  energy  costs  amount  to  an  increased  “tax”  on  everything  we  buy  and  use.    Everything  we  make,  everything  we  grow,  everything  we  transport,  uses  energy.    If  the  cost  of  diesel  fuel  rises,  truckers  pay  more  to  transport  goods,  and  that  increased  cost  is  passed  on  to  the  eventual  consumer.    When  a  trucking  company  passes  on  its  increased  fuel  costs  to,  say,  McDonalds,  to  keep  them  supplied  with  hamburgers  and  buns,  McDonalds  covers  these  increased  costs  by  increasing  the  price  of  its  hamburgers.    If  they  did  not  do  this,  they  would  not  stay  in  business,  and  no  one  would  have  McDonalds  hamburgers  any  more.    When  energy  prices  rise,  all  of  us  pay  the  price  in  everything  we  buy,  not  just  for  the  gasoline  and  the  electricity  we  use.  

But  there  is  a  solution  to  this.    What  if  we  had  an  energy  resource  that  was  so  common,  so  abundant,  and  so  cheap  that  everyone  would  have  the  ability  not  only  to  sustain  themselves,  but  to  thrive?  That  resource  is  the  element  Thorium,  and  every  nation  has  it!  Thorium  can  provide  us  with  ultra  clean  energy  cheaper  than  coal!  

Dr.  Carlo  Rubbia,  who  shared  the  1984  Nobel  Prize  in  Physics,  described  Thorium  as  having  "absolute  pre-­‐eminence"  over  all  other  fuels,  including  fossil  fuels  and  Uranium.  

China,  Russia,  and  India  are  all  aggressively  pursuing  the  commercialization  of  Thorium  energy  technology.  A  few  American  companies  want  the  chance  to  develop  this  technology.  We  missed  our  first  and  best  chance  to  do  that  ourselves.    America  was  well  on  its  way  to  commercializing  Thorium  technology  in  the  1970’s,  but  when  there  was  a  downturn  in  the  economy,  the  technology  was  shelved  at  the  time  due  to  the  cost  to  commercialize  it.  

Today,  more  than  ever,  we  need  affordable  and  accessible  energy  if  we  are  to  remain  competitive  in  the  world  marketplace,  and  it  must  be  clean  energy.    With  abundant,  low-­‐cost  energy  from  Thorium,  our  economy  will  stop  shipping  jobs  overseas  because  our  manufacturing  costs  will  go  down,  wages  will  increase,  and  there  will  be  many  more  jobs  here.  

 In  addition  to  electricity,  Thorium  technologies  will  provide  inexpensive  fresh  water  from  seawater;  inexpensive  synthetic  gasoline  and  diesel  to  get  America  

completely  off  foreign  oil;  and  two  kinds  of  medical  isotopes:  one  for  which  there  is  now  no  American  supply,  and  is  used  in  over  320,000  diagnostic  procedures  in  the  U.S.  per  week;  and  a  second  isotope,  now  very  expensive  and  in  short  supply,  which  is  needed  for  cancer  research  and  for  a  possible  cure  for  many  cancers.    Finally,  Thorium  technology  will  produce  isotopes  to  power  NASA’s  deep  space  probes.    To  learn  more  goto:  http://www.Th90.org        

Thorium:

The Smart Choice!