U.S. Company Developing Radioactive Steam-Powered Car Engine. This radioactive car should give Greenpeace, et al, something to protest about. Just one gram of thorium would provide the equivalent of 7,500 gallons of gasoline, so a thorium-powered car could last for 300,000 miles or 5,000 hours of driving between fill-ups. At the current price of $0.25 per gram we can’t wait.
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Awesome idea! It's a heck of a lot better than manufacturing these rare earth batteries. The only problem I can see is that in order to power the laser, one would have to harness the energy from decaying radioactive matter. Unfortunately, that step is not explained in the article.
I really hope they can iron that wrinkle out.
F-n kewl car!! I'd buy/drive one just to piss the greenie-environazis off!
I am interested in what the naysayers have to --er, say -- not the Union of Concerned Scientists, which is nothing but a leftard anti-nuke bunch of fellow travellers, but legit science. Rule 1 of the Smell Test is, If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I hate to play devil's advocate -not on the overall concept, mind you -- but does it really sound plausible that 8 grams of =anything= could run an automotive engine for 300,000 miles? Maybe 8 grams of black hole stuff. Most cars that would translate to maybe a 20 year old car -- 2 decades on 8gr? I'd sure as hell buy one if I could afford it, even if it took a a lot more fuel, but as is, it sounds a little more like "Mr Cold Fusion."
It's all well and good until the flux capacitor needs to be replaced!
Great Scott!
Well,China and India are developing thorium salt reactors
for power so I'm guessing it will never catch on here.
Funny thing, inventing.... it's driven by price, necessity, imagination - never by the arm twisting of the government.
. “It’s easier to get billions to do stupid stuff [than] a few hundred million to do really smart stuff,” he says.
Funny thing that, aint it? (asked the Solyndra exec.)
Yep. I hold 15 patents on pharmaceutical products...and not a penny of government funding was used to invent any of them. All research was funded directly by the pharmaceutical companies themselves...it's called R&D costs...of course, the companies make back that money in the licensing agreements and patent process, but on the whole, nothing that is useful came into being on its own. Someone had an idea ... money and time was invested in the testing and manufacturing development and processes, all before a penny of revenue was generated ... then manufacturing begins and products are offered for sale ... this is what creates jobs ... a need and something to fill that need ...
Is your gravatar,... hanging? LOL, thats a good one!
Will it fly? I think the Jetson's futuristic world is on its way.
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Popular Science magazine told me I would have a flying car in my garage by now. Where is it?
It'll be here in 2062 :)
Sign me up! 'Course, you'd get the anti Dihydrogen Oxide whackos keying your ride....
It gets worse I read a readers digest about rocket fuel in our drinking water. I was so concerned that I googled what powered the mighty Saturn V. Turns out it was hydrogen fuel and lox for an oxidizer. Can you imagine . . . hydrogen and oxygen mixing together in our drinking water! I hope Michael Moore will make a documentary highlighting this very real danger and pointing out that it is Haliburton's fault!
OH NO!! Please don't tell me that hydrogen and oxygen are getting in our water supply! What will happen when firemen unknowingly try to use this lethal mizture?
I'll never eat another bagel.
ROFLMAO . . . well played sir!
That DiHydrogen Oxide, it's getting everywhere. Next thing you know, it'll be polluting the oceans. The fishies will all die.