I'm John Batchen with David Livingston.

This is Hotel Mars episode and energy.

In order to do anything in deep space, we need calculations driven by artificial intelligence.

I'm not going to prove it.

There it is.

Okay.

But artificial intelligence chews up more electricity than we can imagine.

We need endless supplies of energy going forward for the population, but also for the high end.

And Dr. A.J. Kotari is here to help us understand what is a thorium reactor and who's building one right now, AJ?

Good evening.

Well, good evening.

Well, I think that we are losing to China in both space and energy, actually.

And in energy and in space also, but certainly in energy, some new news that have come out makes it look like China is going to eat us for lunch.

And this is a warning to the United States.

In the energy sector, there has been news that is leaked out that the Chinese thorium reactor, which was

TMSR-L-F-1, actually worked and worked quite well and has been actually went critical and

created enough the power to two mega,

two mega watt power on June 17th of last year.

And then in October, it ran continuously for 10 days.

Now, this is, this is big.

But another important thing is that now they have also been able to fuel this reactor continuously

while it was running.

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