Personally I think the inclination to ask the right questions is the only intellect anybody ever needs, you seem to have that :).
The discussion confirmed to me what I was expecting to hear, that Thorium reactors are still something exotic, we definitely wouldn't find one in Alibaba or Amazon, whereas we can find all the components of solar hydrogen there.
It further confirmed that the actual benefit of Thorium, in terms of its heating effect on the planet, is actually a minus, it is just another extracted energy source, which has to have a positive temperature impulse, the energy obtained from it can never compensate for the energy taken from the planet, in terms of the total materials converted to heat.
There is a slightly confusing statement by ChatGPT that might be interpreted as not saying that, but I know if we pushed it, we would have forced it to admit the statement implied that somehow we were getting more energy out than in, but this is something used all the time by those wishing to brush what is an energy theft from the planet, under the carpet so we don't see it. You know when profit is made, the additional energy received, in all cases had to come from somewhere, and as long as money is only issued as debt (Never yet as solar indexed stimulus), the additional energy received in profit had to have come from the planet. So strictly speaking we are committing an energy theft from the planet, every time we make profit.
In the case of Thorium it seems to be that this is hidden within the additional processing required to prepare the Thorium for fission. The energy put into that has to be substantial, but it is masked by maybe being done as a side project of a standard fission power station.
There was obviously some confusion in ChatGPT unprompted, as it does not appear to remember being educated previously as to why mathematically sign our energy use in other threads (Many times!).
But the poem at the end is what tells us what it really thinks, it seems to me, it makes it pretty clear that the energy of the sun is the way to go, everything else is mathematically negative.
Isn't it interesting it chose the word "Coal", to rhyme with "Toll", when we had not talked about coal at all, yet it knows, by its ability for parallel thinking it already equates it with Thorium, they are both just different forms of energy extraction from the planet.
On the e-book, I couldn't bring myself to publishing on paper, like I stopped driving cars a few years ago, given the topic is all about the damage being done to the planet, it seems ironic and maybe a little hypocritical to then have it be responsible for yet more energy extraction, in form of the materials committed to the book, sorry if that comes as any disappointment, I hope you'll see it is well worth buying anyway, priceless actually :)
If someone came up with a way to create solid materials like paper, entirely from the energy of the sun, then I would be publishing it to use to construct all kinds of things, because the energy comprising it would then be subtracted from the temperature impulse. See how it works?
