REPRISE: Solving Global Warming 100% Without Military Action

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We are a U.S. public-policy monthly discussion group founded in the Fall of 2005 that meets on the third Wednesday of each month (with adjustments to avoid secular/religious holidays).

Since February 2020, we have met via Zoom. [For the first 14.5 years of our existence, we met at the Salt Lake City Library (210 East 400 South) with remote participation via Skype.]

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Our attendance averages 11-12. Participants come from all walks of life but our regular attendees include 4 attorneys and 3 scientists.

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40 SIX-DEGREES-OF-SEPARATION E-MAIL CAMPAIGNS, 4 REPORTS & 9 REPRISES

We take great pride in our Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail campaigns to America's decision makers which, with only a few computer keyboard key strokes, can be sent by each of our members (1) to the decision maker, and (2) to all of the member's friends and acquaintances requesting them to do the same in an unending chain.

Accordingly, we also take great pride that each of our official recommendations has been approved unanimously at one of our meetings or, at most, received only one dissent.

All 40 e-mail campaigns over the years are collected in this section. They include 10 e-mails sent by John Karls that did not receive an official endorsement for the rest of our members to send. The titles of the 30 official recommendations are ALL CAPS and the titles of 10 unofficial recommendations are lower case.

The date of the meeting at which each of the 40 campaigns was adopted is listed so that voluminous additional information about that campaign can be accessed by scrolling down to the sections of this bulletin board that relate to that meeting.

In addition, there are four items whose descriptions begin with “REPORT.” They are reports of our Great Salt Lake Working Group which was formed IAW our “Short-Time Fuse” procedures described in the next section of this bulletin board.

There is also a 1/20/2021 “Report” of our JCPOA Working Group.

Finally, there are eight items whose descriptions begin with “REPRISE.” They describe additional actions that were taken IAW previous official e-mail campaigns to bring their approved policies to the attention of additional decision makers.

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REPRISE: Solving Global Warming 100% Without Military Action

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The following e-mail is a reprise of our Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail Campaigns requesting funding for final development of proven thorium fission which is both safe and economical.

The campaigns were directed (as described in the following e-mail) to --

(1) DOE Secretary Stephen Chu following our 10/10/2012 meeting, and
(2) President Obama following our 11/23/2013 meeting.

This reprise is directed to The Hon. Ivanka Trump for reasons described in the following e-mail.

There is no need for anyone else to send similar e-mails because there are so many influential people who read the material on our website that The Hon. Ivanka Trump will quickly become aware of the e-mail indirectly even if her commercial organization fails to forward the original to her.


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Subject: Message for The Hon. Ivanka Trump – Senior Counselor to the U.S. President
From: john@johnkarls.com
Date: Wed, September 20, 2017 5:14 pm EDT
To: info@ivankatrump.com
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Harvard Club – Box 126
27 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
September 20, 2017


The Honorable Ivanka Trump
Senior Counselor to the President of the United States
c/o Ivanka Trump Headquarters
New York, NY

Dear Ms. Trump:

Re: Solving Global Warming Without Having To Invade Militarily Such Countries As China

For the past 12 years, I have facilitated a public-policy study group in the vicinity of my Utah ski house comprising approximately 150 members including numerous science professors and including a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the U.S. National Nuclear-Research Laboratory at Oak Ridge TN.

[Our Nuclear Engineering PhD has led several of our studies over the years concerning thorium fission and other nuclear issues.]

Every time our group has focused on global warming, I have begun the discussion by asking for a show of hands by anyone who favors invading militarily, for example, China to prevent it from bringing on stream every week one new monster-size coal-burning electrical-power generation plant.

In all of those meetings over the years, nobody has ever shown the slightest interest in using military force to coerce any country into using an uneconomic energy source, thereby reducing the standard of living of its citizens.

However, luckily there is an economic energy source that is abundant and safe.

You may not be aware that thorium/fission was proved feasible in the 1960’s when the U.S. National Nuclear-Research Laboratory at Oak Ridge TN conducted a successful 18-month continuous demonstration project comprising a thorium nuclear reactor. And that President Nixon caused the nation to turn away from thorium (and toward uranium and plutonium) because thorium is incapable of producing an explosion.

Both conventional uranium fission and proven thorium/fission share all of the following advantages: (a) producing no greenhouse gases; (b) eliminating the dependence of the U.S. and its allies on members of OPEC (the long-standing Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries) and, in the case of Europe, natural gas imports from Russia (in addition to oil & gas imports from OPEC); and (c) eliminating the gaping U.S. balance-of-payments deficit and resulting piling up of our foreign national debt.

However, proven thorium/fission has the following advantages over conventional uranium/fission –

(1) LFTR’s (Liquid Floride Thorium Reactors) require minimal containment chambers because meltdowns are physically impossible since LFTR’s operate near atmospheric pressure (this is both a safety and cost factor).

(2) LFTR’s do not require elaborate cooling systems because they operate well below the boiling point of molten salt and can be passively cooled (this is also both a safety and cost factor).

(3) Thorium is so stable that, as mentioned above, it is impossible to make a nuclear weapon from thorium which is why the U.S. turned to uranium and plutonium instead of thorium.

(4) Thorium has such an incredibly-high “burn-up” that there is virtually no long-lived radioactive waste.

(5) LFTR’s can safely consume uranium from decommissioned nuclear warheads and from spent uranium-reactor fuel rods. Indeed, the Oak Ridge MSRE in the 1960’s was able to use U-235, Pu-239 and U-233 at the same time as thorium. [NB: Since former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of NV prevented the opening of Yucca Mountain NV as the repository for our spent uranium-nuclear fuel rods, the spent uranium-nuclear fuel rods have been left on site at each uranium-nuclear plant to remain cool in the equivalent of home swimming-pools even though many of those uranium-nuclear plants are situated in high-volume air corridors!!!]

(6) Because LFTR’s are economically practical in small sizes, they can be mass-produced in factories and assembled near electrical demand so that the huge energy losses during electricity transmission are virtually eliminated -- though to replace huge uranium reactors, it would only be necessary to assemble several of the small modular thorium reactors into a larger plant.

(7) In addition, thorium is so plentiful that proven thorium supplies are capable of supplying 100% of the world’s energy (not just electricity) for more than 1,000 years. Indeed, virtually all of India’s “sand” beaches comprise thorium.

[Our calculation was 80 years of “proven” reserves of uranium for current (electricity only) usage multiplied by 3 (the minimum abundance factor of “proven” thorium reserves vs. “proven” uranium reserves) multiplied by 99 (usable thorium energy content vs. usable uranium energy content) multiplied by 5.8% (the percentage of total worldwide energy including transportation fuels, that comes from nuclear plants) = 1,378 years.]

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Proven thorium/fission has all of these advantages and only needs 2-3 years of final development = the equivalent of having already produced a Ford Model T proving an automobile is feasible but still needing 2-3 years of development (and relatively-modest funding) to design a Ford Fusion for mass production.

The relatively-modest funding for the 2-3 years of final development has been estimated at $5 billion to build the first commercial prototype.

Which is why our group conducted on this subject two of its so-called Six-Degrees-of-Separation E-mail Campaigns pursuant to which each of our 150 members was encouraged to, with only a few computer keyboard key strokes, send an already-prepared e-mail to the decision maker and to send the request to all of their friends/acquaintances to do the same in an unending chain so that, in theory, the decision maker would have received 320 million petitions in short order.

The first followed our 10/10/2012 meeting and was directed to DOE Secretary Stephen Chu because DOE’s Discretionary Budget for FY 2012 (dated February 2012 and posted on the DOE website) contained $29.5 billion of discretionary funding which comprised many categories from which LFTR research and development could have come, such as Energy Transformation Acceleration ($5.4 billion), Energy Efficiency ($3.2 billion), and Environmental Management ($6.1 billion).

And since DOE Secretary Chu failed to take action, our second e-mail campaign following our 11/23/2013 meeting was directed to President Obama.

Unfortunately, President Obama condemned America --

(1) to continue kowtowing to oil-exporting countries (including Russia with its natural gas exports to Europe).

(2) to go on importing half of its oil & gas requirements (and the resulting piling up of foreign-held U.S. debt).

(3) to continue polluting the atmosphere with carbon.

[With regard to the last point, each of our participants has always recognized that many, if not most, of the world’s nations will refuse to halt carbon pollution unless the solution is cheaper than any alternative and each of us has always admitted that we would not favor invading militarily other countries -- such as China to prevent it from bringing on line one new monster-sized coal-fired electric-generation plant every week.]

I am sorry to burden you with this information, but there have been numerous news reports about the time that the Trump Administration was considering withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord that you and your husband actually opposed withdrawal. And Congress and the Administration are currently hashing out the details of the U.S. Government’s budget for its impending fiscal year.

And I am sorry to inconvenience your commercial organization with forwarding this e-mail to you, but there was no way on the WhiteHouse.gov website to direct a message to you.

[At least I am not burdening your commercial organization with a Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail Campaign that would result in a considerable number of identical e-mails.]

Thank you for your consideration!!! And good luck to you in all of your activities and with all of your responsibilities!!!

Respectfully submitted,

John S. Karls
JD, Harvard Law School, 1967
Who’s Who in American Law, 1988-2003
Who’s Who in America, 1988-2003
Who’s Who in the World, 1994-2003

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Reactions to the 9/27/2017 Thorium-Fission Development Repri

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Subject: Reaction to Last Wed’s Thorium Fission Reprise
From: ReadingLiberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
Date: Tue, October 3, 2017 6:18 am MDT
To: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com
Bcc: The “To” and “Cc” Addressees Listed Below
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To: Cal Burgart

Cc: The 9 RSVP’s for Our October 4th Meeting --

Ellen Birrell
Thomas Chancellor
Norm Guice
Ted Gurney
Tucker Gurney
Jay Hansen
Marcia Hansen
George Kunath
Yours Truly


Dear Cal,

First things first. Congratulations on the recognition of Penn State in the polls as the best team in the Big 10!!! It’s a shame that Ohio State was selected for the national playoffs last year even though Penn State was the Big 10 Champion!!! But many, if not most, aficionados recognized that the two best teams in the nation were not selected, but played each other in the Rose Bowl for the true National Championship!!! [And the “wise acres” who claimed the 52-49 score was a reflection on the defenses, ignored the fact that Penn State and Southern Cal had two of the nation’s top-rated defenses during the regular season, so the score was really an indication of how superior their quarterbacks were to all the other QB’s in the country!!!]

But the reason for this e-mail.

You probably didn’t notice that currently posted as the first item in the first section of www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org is a “reprise” on thorium fission to try to stir interest in the new Administration.

[We’ve always been a non-partisan public-policy study group that focuses on ascertaining the best solutions and getting them implemented, rather than being an unimportant self-edification group of policy wonks.]

As the person who led all of our discussions on thorium fission (as well as Fukushima Daiichi), you would probably be interested in what has happened in the 6 days since the thorium-fission “reprise” was posted.

When checking e-mail Sunday evening, there were 368 people logged on our website!!!

And when checking e-mail last evening, there were over 400!!!

Our previous high had only been 58 which happened about 7 years ago.

And if you scroll to the bottom of the first screen of the website, there is recorded (inter alia) the “most viewers ever online” which currently reads 423 for 8:19 pm last night.

FYI, I can log on as “site administrator” and access a real-time report on what on the website the current users are viewing –- and all but a dozen or so both Sunday evening and last evening were viewing the thorium-fission “reprise”!!!

[That seemed a bit surprising since the thorium-fission “reprise” itself records only 283 views since it was posted last Wednesday, so I checked the specs for our website software and simultaneous views by more than one user are only recorded as one view.]

A last interesting fact???

Sunday evening when there were 368 viewers and last evening when there were 423 would have been Monday morning and Tuesday morning in China and Japan.

I remember how you often remarked what a shame it would be if a foreign country performed the final development for thorium fission and obtained the worldwide patents for the best commercial prototype –- since thorium fission was proved feasible in the 1960’s by the 18-month continuous demonstration project at the U.S. National Nuclear Research Laboratory at Oak Ridge TN while you were there earning your PhD in Nuclear Engineering.

Though from our perspective as a public-policy study group, we should still be happy that somebody is finally doing it.

Thank you again for all your support over the years. Especially on our 6/17/2015 Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail Campaign to Pope Francis imploring him on his then-impending first visit to the U.S. to champion America’s 30% Permanent Under-Caste when you and your daughter confirmed WITHIN A MATTER OF ONLY A COUPLE OF HOURS that Pope Francis and Archbishop Joseph Kurtz (President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) were both already blocking our e-mails!!!

I hope all is well with you. BTW, Janice Shawl and Attila Relenyi are in town through the weekend to, inter alia, get their ski house in shape.

Your friend,

John K.

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