Um...I don't want to be a killjoy or anything, but there are [quite a few myths] (https://whatisnuclear.com/articles/thorium_myths.html) surrounding the benefits of Thorium apparently. Now I'm not a nuclear scientist (INNS), but it seems to me that this is probably not the world saviour power source we're looking for. What we need is something safer, abundant and sustainable and which doesn't take much processing. Now where could we find a nice source of freely available abundant energy which we could use and store at will? >Peers up at the sky.
Another persuasive school of thought would suggest we need to think about using much, much less energy (and everything else), or rather using it more responsibly without as much waste. But that's another story, right?
RE: Do most of the worlds problems have a common solution? You won't believe what the chinese are building.