in the unlikely event anyone is interested in science and technology, i just made this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JE1zrs7tzU

if you are wondering what it has to do with Phuket? it was made in Phuket

enjoy

I watched the first few minutes ... interesting ...

Will watch in full later.

Well done Steve.

BTW ... who did the voice over?

Quite interesting but the robotic narrator lacks emotion and personality to keep me listening much longer than half way.

Why not narrate yourself? I must admit it can be difficult.

I watched the first few minutes ... interesting ... 

 

Will watch in full later.

 

Well done Steve.

 

BTW ... who did the voice over?

I'm pretty sure it's a program that you just type the text and it reads it. That's why it can't differentiate between a question and a fact.

Throws you off a little.

I must admit that I was distracted by the emotionless voice, who never seemed to take a breath!

Was this some web service or a program that produces a voice from text?

Too many facts and figures the layman doesn't need to know and not enough narrative.

Ditch the narrator. I lasted ten minutes.

Impressed. Do we have a nuclear scientist dwelling amongst us?

I must admit that I was distracted by the emotionless voice, who never seemed to take a breath!

Was this some web service or a program that produces a voice from text?

Pretty clear it seems to me to be a text to speech synthesis. I'll have to keep that in mind actually when I do another tech video as I have no voice over in any of mine.

I too lost interest.

The idea is good, but you are only showing the costs for the fuel. You are not showing any equipment costs, construction costs.

What is your waste bi-product? Are there disposal fees? Looks like your original fuel lasts between 4-6 years, that is a big difference in life span you need to tune that in better.

I'm sure there are other raw product costs, not just the basic material you mentioned, such as daily water consumption or any other daily/weekly or monthly consumption.

It is a good concept, but to actually see if this is viable project you need to expand on the real world start-up costs and monthly / yearly operational costs.

expected maintenance costs. Etc

I'm interested in this, let me know if you have more information.

SteveH thanks for sharing the video. Very interesting.

How the Thorium is prepared and solved into FliBe salt?

@eric: for costs estimation and impact

This video I want to share to my greenie friends who think nuclear energy is bad.

yes, its Ivona reader speech synthesis

i started out narrating it myself and quickly realized i'm not a voice actor. its quite difficult to speak clearly and consistently. and takes a lot of time

maybe someone watching on youtube will feel sorry for me and provide a human narration track.

I too lost interest.

The idea is good, but you are only showing the costs for the fuel. You are not showing any equipment costs, construction costs.

What is your waste bi-product? Are there disposal fees? Looks like your original fuel lasts between 4-6 years, that is a big difference in life span you need to tune that in better.

I'm sure there are other raw product costs, not just the basic material you mentioned, such as daily water consumption or any other daily/weekly or monthly consumption.

It is a good concept, but to actually see if this is viable project you need to expand on the real world start-up costs and monthly / yearly operational costs.

expected maintenance costs. Etc

I'm interested in this, let me know if you have more information.

No one has built a plant yet, but i expect it will be in line with the cost of a current nuclear plant.

your right, i didn't list the actual waste products, maybe i should add that. disposal would be same as conventional nuclear waste i suppose

by original fuel, do you mean u233? that is constantly replaced by the reactor itself. the thorium needs constant topping up

i think those questions about real world start-up cost, operation cost, etc. will be answered by a lot smarter people than me. the point of this video was more to show there is a potential energy source out there that provides base load power (24/7), no CO2, far less waste and better efficiency than existing nuclear, and way easier than fusion

Is Phuket set to become the "hub" of Thorium?

Honestly.. terrible.

Saying that, it's not my usual viewing preference, so on that basis my opinion can probably be taken with a pinch of salt.

totster

Honestly.. terrible.

 

Saying that, it's not my usual viewing preference, so on that basis my opinion can probably be taken with a pinch of salt.

 

totster

It's just the narrator that's bad.

The topic itself is interesting and well put together.

He needs a David Attenborough or maybe James Earl Jones style. Darth Vader would be awesome.