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Is Thorium The Key To Reversing Global Warming and Saving Humanity?

In this episode of ColdFusion, we take a look at the Enron story. This US Energy company was once the darling of Wall Street thanks to its aggressive business tactics and powerful connections to two US Presidents. But the rosy picture painted by the company’s CEO was a facade that ended costing the American people over $60-billion. The company’s implosion went down as the biggest case of fraud in history.

Sex, Violence, Money and Controversy, lots and lots of controversy. This is the story of Rockstar Games. A company started by two maverick brothers that revolutionized the video game industry and raked in billions of dollars with games like Grand Theft Auto.

Most tech billionaires achieve success early in their lives. Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs were all in their early 20s when they founded their companies. But the founder of the Chinese behometh Alibaba had a totally different route to success. Jack Ma started Alibaba while in his mid thirties after a string of failed businesses and setbacks including being rejected for a job at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. How did this former school teacher and Chinese entrepreneur overcome failure and beat out every Silicon Valley tech company trying to compete against him in China? We'll find out in this episode of ColdFusion.

One of the men responsible for the biggest corporate fraud in history is on a quest to make a comeback and he's got Wall Street investors lined up to help him make a dramatic return to the business world. Who would want to work with a felon convicted of corporate fraud? And what type of business can this man be a part of considering he was barred from the energy sector? We'll find you in this episode of Cold Fusion.

A car battery that lasts over 1-million miles? That's what Tesla CEO Elon Musk is claiming his company has just created. In a world where the average car averages only 150,000 miles before it becomes too expensive to operate, the creation of a million-mile battery would revolutionize automotive transportation and efficiency. Is this bold new claim by Elon Musk true? It just might be. Join us as we take a look at the science behind the million-mile battery and what might be one of the most important energy and transportation revolutions in the last 100-years.

Millions of tons of plastic wastes are dumped into the environment every, year polluting our oceans and even invading our bodies. The amount of plastic humans eat every year is rising at an alarming rate as the ubiqiutous packaging material is now even found in snow that turns into our drinking water. Plastic can take hundreds, or even thousands of years to break down. As economies of Asian countries such as China begin to mature, the plastic waste problem has only gotten worse. Will the earth and all of it's inhabitants be engulfed in a blanket of life-killing plastic? Maybe not. ColdFusion host Dagogo takes a look at the plastic waste epidemic and discovers that we may already have solutions to reverse the tide. Solutions that include cutting edge technology and incentives for the biggest plastic polluting nations to start recycling on a massive scale.

The iPhone was initially a product that the majority of Apple's executive team, including Steve Jobs, didn't want to develop or see a need for. The revolutionary device had the odds stacked against it from the very beginning. What could go wrong did go wrong— everything from faulty computer processors to attempts from Apple's own management team to kill it. But, a talented group of innovators bent on creating the device persevered and pushed Apple to think beyond the iPod and computer hardware, whether Steve Jobs liked it or not. Join Dagogo as he reveals the untold story of the iPhone and the tremendous professional and personal toll it took on the people who created it.

BlackBerry once dominated the smartphone market with its slick software and amazing hardware. It seemed as if this Canadian company was poised to dominate the smart phone market forever until a computer company named Apple came along and revolutionized the way people communicate and access the internet with the iPhone. How could BlackBerry have been blindsided by a company with absolutely no experience in the mobile phone business industry? The truth? BlackBerry wasn't blindsided. The failure of the company lays at the feet of its co-founders, who decided to write off the iPhone as an expensive trinket because their company was invincible. It's a tale of arrogance and hubris that led to the destruction of a multi-billion dollar company everyone thought was unstoppable.

In this episode of ColdFusion we look at a new technological breath through that may be the key to reversing climate change and finally make the transition from fossil fuels to electric an economic reality. What's behind this new breakthrough? Carbon Dioxide. That's right! The most significant contributor to climate change may also be the key to reversing it thanks to a promising new battery technology.