Anyone interested in doing a startup which could help push thorium energy forward? I know and understand nothing about physics, but maybe there's room for programmers to carve out their niche in something useful here.
You would probably require a ridiculous amount of VC funding to even make a plant. Also, you are competing with people with PhD's in the field doing research.
Yes. This is the tragedy of programming and computer "science": you know everything about making tools and writing code to other people's specs — and nearly nothing about solving actual real-world problems. That's why I mentioned carving out a niche. I didn't intend to build a whole plant, but a company which comes up with software which helps people building plants might have a fighting chance.
Energy is the biggest problem humans face today.