Incoming Norwegian majority for thorium

We did it ! The conservative party’s Høyre national convention announced this morning they’ll favor a thorium program. Together with the progressive party Fremskrittspartiet chances are good that a majority coalition will form in government, replacing the incumbent redgreen mess of socialdemocrats, far out socialists and farmer’s labour union. The socialdemocrats Arbeiderpartiet have managed to [...]

Gräv inte ner kärnavfallet !

Det finns inga atomsopor. Det ”utbrända kärnbränslet” är en ovärdelig strategisk tillgång för framtida teknologier och måste därför tas hand om på samma sätt som om det vore guldreserv eller arvsilver.

Thought experiment : The Torro

So Bernard Lietaer proposes a new global currency, the Terra, to be backed by a basket of  stable commodities. The Terra should ease currency risks, facilitate international trade, underwrite long term investement and leverage large scale infrastructure.  What is a basket of stable commodities ? Oil yoyos, uranium is a thin market, rare earth metals [...]

What to produce in Western Sweden ?

Western Sweden is held up by the car manufacturers SAAB and Volvo and their subcontractors. Despite optimistic rethoric out of SAAB’s management after being betrayed by their owner GM, SAAB’s future is extremely gloomy with billons of dollars in debt, factories at half capacity, too few and too ordinary models. In a global crunch, a [...]

So Sweden wants nuclear energy, you said..

The happy message this week is of course posted by the Swedish government. After agony in two of the parties making up the liberal-conservative majority, the effective ban on new reactors is declared obsolete. A referendum 29 years back lies behind this long-standing blocking of an efficient energy policy. The new proposal needs to be [...]

Davos : Anyone with a clue ?

The annual gathering ov VIPs in snowy Davos is starting. During the week power brokers should discuss the pressing issues. But the programme is without any speakers or downloadable presentations. Are they serious ?  The financial crisis is reported to be the main focus. So you’d expect them to produce intelligent answers to these exact [...]

Welcome !

On Barack’s first working day in the Oval Office, inspiration came to start a commentary on our time’s most important issues. This blog should be about five urgent challenges : – to launch an energy infrastructure running on thorium – to start using hydrogen as a fuel but stored as ammonia – to build transcontinental [...]