The world isn’t too hot on nuclear energy today, and for good reason. But “nuclear energy” doesn’t have to be the kind we’ve come to know and botch. Some engineers think the rocks we’re walking on could change electricity forever.
Motherboard’s new mini-doc, “The Thorium Dream”, follows just that — the fantasy of ditching uranium in favour of thorium, which is claimed to create far safer, cheaper and extremely abundant. So why aren’t we using this tech that was developed decades ago? The film does a terrific job navigating this strange electrical counter culture, talking to the minds who envision a near future that sounds like sci-fi. They say it could be very real. [Motherboard]