This blog is a gateway to background information on Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs) as well as a gateway to a petition (via MoveOn.org) to President Obama urging him to have the U.S. pursue LFTR technology. Here's a link to the petition.

    http://signon.org/sign/mr-president-stop-global?source=c.url&r_by=6101000

If 50 people sign the petition, MoveOn will distribute the petition to a a subset of their distribution list (most likely to members in the northern California area). If that results in more signatures, MoveOn may consider wider distribution.

For a ten-minute introduction to LFTRs, see this TED talk:

    http://www.ted.com/talks/kirk_sorensen_thorium_an_alternative_nuclear_fuel.html

For some background on why Nixon cancelled LFTRs back in the 1970s:

    http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=bbyr7jZOllI

A blog with lots of useful links:

    http://imagineemergence.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-age-of-thorium.html

Robert Hargraves' wonderful book (via Amazon.com) on why LFTRs are our best chance of dealing with our energy problems:

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478161299/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Robert Hargraves' Facebook page for LFTRs:

    https://www.facebook.com/ThoriumEnergyCheaperThanCoal

Energy from thorium website:

    http://energyfromthorium.com/

Note that there is a good bit of misinformation on the web about LFTRs, including comments from outgoing Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu.

Below is a flyer I'm handing out to people at events like rallies against the Keystone XL pipeline, showings of  "Chasing Ice", etc. It glosses over a lot, but if fits on one page. I'll be trying to convince people that LFTRs are green.