Safe nuclear energy: Thorium

No business, goes into business, to go out of business. I understand this premise and I understand the entity or person's fight to keep it alive and profitable until the very end.

However, energies is a business that isn't part of the normal market equation.

1. Where monies are concerned, what is better for humanity or less expensive is not the number 1 priority.

2. Where the product/'s are concerned, competition isn't as easy as marketing a new toaster design and letting the buying public decide it's fate. Our entire society is built around, on and structured to function using coal, oil and nuclear. It is not only an industry, it has been set up to be our lives blood...literally.

It's not that we can't start transitioning or slowly integrating towards greener, newer/different forms for our energy concerns...we could. BUT, in a "free market" driven society, you'll find no philanthropy or future think...THIS is about the bottom line and the bottom line doesn't recognize true efforts that would move towards "really" alleviating the economic burdens of your average citizen nor wanting to...I mean...why would they? They'd be cutting their own throats.

The Untied States will be the LAST developed country to embrace alternatives and it won't be a matter of being late to the game...it will only truly and seriously happen when we're left with no other choice.