Kirk Sorensen is the founder of Flibe Energy and advocate for nuclear energy based on thorium and liquid-fluoride fuels. For five years he has authored the blog "Energy from Thorium" and helped grow an online community of thousands who support a renewed effort to develop thorium as an energy source. He is a 1999 graduate of Georgia Tech in aerospace engineering and is also a graduate student in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee. He has spoken publicly on thorium at the Manchester International Forum in 2009, at NASA's Green Energy Forum in 2008, and in several TechTalks at Google. He has been featured in Wired magazine, Machine Design magazine, the Economist, the UK Guardian and Telegraph newspapers, and on Russia Today.
He also taught nuclear engineering at Tennessee Technological University as a guest lecturer. He is active in nonprofit advocacy organizations such as the Thorium Energy Alliance and the International Thorium Energy Organization. He is married and has four small children.
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- Can Thorium End Our Energy Crisis - Kirk Sorensen ( Download)
- Thorium can give humanity clean, pollution free energy | Kirk Sorensen | TEDxColoradoSprings ( Download)
- Kirk Sorensen on Energy from Thorium ( Download)
- Kirk Sorensen - A Global Alternative (thorium energy via LFTR) @ TEAC4 ( Download)
- Kirk Sorensen of Flibe Energy talks about Thorium Reactors ( Download)
- Kirk Sorensen @ MRU on LFTR - Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors ( Download)
- Thorium: Kirk Sorensen at TEDxYYC ( Download)
- Kirk Sorensen - Introduction to Flibe Energy @ TEAC3 ( Download)
- Kirk Sorensen of Flibe Energy: Why We Need LFTR ( Download)
- Solution To Energy Crisis ( Download)
- Kirk Sorensen, Google, Path Forward Enabled by Thorium ( Download)
- 0h32m37s20f Nulcear Challenges due to Pressurized Water Coolant - Kirk Sorensen - TR2016a ( Download)
- Obama, China, Rare Earths - Can WTO save manufacturing jobs Why no USA REE THORIUM. ( Download)
- Thorium ‘more environmentally friendly and safer’ than nuclear ( Download)
- Is Thorium Our Energy Future | Answers With Joe ( Download)
