Uranium-233 is important as seed-fissile for dual-fluid “Pure Cycle” Thorium Molten-Salt Reactors. U-233 does the fissioning in the core-salt (FLiBe salts containing U-233), and basically ope...
http://gordonmcdowell.com/thorium-molten-salt-reactors-and-the-importance-of-uranium-233/
Netflix’s “House of Cards” has characters fighting over a rare earth refinery in China. This is a welcome pop-culture introduction to the challenge facing North American high-tech manufactu...
Ontario has burned their last ton of coal. Ontario’s carbon footprint is miniscule. This was pointed out to me by an Australian. I worked with Ben Heard to create the above video, but I’ve ne...
Generally I don’t post updates concerning the thorium documentary “Th” here, as it is still a work in progress and my updates are so incremental they’re really only worthy of short tweets...
http://gordonmcdowell.com/thoriu-documentary-chapters-greens-msre/
I switched from Sony Vegas to Premiere Pro CS6 (PPro) because I am very dependent on multi-cam support. The Vegas multi-cam approach forces all media (for a given multi-cam event) to be included ...
http://gordonmcdowell.com/adobe-premiere-pro-vs-high-shooting-ratio/
YouTube allows videos to be strung together in playlists. YouTube allows embedded playlists to refer to video by index, as opposed to video UID. For my thorium documentary, I’ll be improving ch...
http://gordonmcdowell.com/iterative-thorium-documentary-in-a-youtube-playlist/
Am hard at work on THORIUM REMIX 2012, the working title of my upcoming thorium documentary. One cost came up I hadn’t prepared for, so I launched a new Kickstarter campaign to cover it. As you...
http://gordonmcdowell.com/thorium-remix-2012-semi-raw-footage/
On 2012-04-12 (April 12th, 2012) the leaders of Alberta’s political parties faced off for a debate. All except Glenn Taylor for Alberta Party. I’d spoken to Glenn previously, and would have v...
I’ve just launched a campaign to help fund THORIUM REMIX 2012 (a working title), a documentary to help propagate the science behind Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, just as THORIUM REMIX 2011 ...
http://gordonmcdowell.com/kickstarter-2012-thorium-documentary/
LFTR in 5 Minutes starts with a fast-paced summary of why thorium needs to be developed as an energy resource. If you follow gadget, technology or science blogs, then you’ll likely find thorium...