Nuclear road car can be powered by 8 grams of thorium for the rest of its life - Polidicks

[IMG]http://newlaunches.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cadillac-world-thorium-fuel-concept-1.jpg[/IMG] [quote]Laser Power Systems from Connecticut is developing a method of propulsion that uses thorium to produce electricity to power a car engine. The principle is simple, thorium is radioactive and can produce huge amount to heat. A setup in the middle of the car will generate Thorium laser which in turn will heat water to produce steam and run a turbine. The turbine, connected with a generator can provide endless energy to power an electric motor.[/quote] [URL]http://newlaunches.com/archives/nuclear-powered-road-car.php[/URL]

What happens when you crash?

Screw electric cars, this is the future!

[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;42555557]What happens when you crash?[/QUOTE] [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg[/img_thumb]

Well, depending on how well the reactor would be isolated and insulated, anything from nuclear genocide to absolutely nothing.

[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;42555557]What happens when you crash?[/QUOTE] If they keep the setup inside a box like the black-box on an aeroplane, then not a lot It's only 8 grams anyway

when the nuclear apocalypse happens I'll know which car brand to aim for; thanks fallout But in seriousness; that's fucking amazing. I'm just curious like everyone else about how they would contain it.

[url]http://www.laserpowersystems.com/[/url] sketchy as fuck everything. don't believe a word of this

[QUOTE=a-cookie;42555567][img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Imagine Michael Bay's transformer movies.

Fallout reference

[QUOTE=Turnips5;42555605][url]http://www.laserpowersystems.com/[/url] sketchy as fuck everything. don't believe a word of this[/QUOTE] oh my; that blinged out logo

1 gram of Thorium has the energy equivalent of 7,500 gallons of gasoline. Wow, I had no idea that this stuff contained such a high amount of energy. Different article I was reading on this [url]http://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/8-grams-of-thorium-could-replace-gasoline-in-cars-1412123/[/url]

[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;42555557]What happens when you crash?[/QUOTE] The same thing that happened two years ago when this news broke: [url]http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/nuclear-cars-with-help-from-thorium-lasers/18868[/url]

[QUOTE=Turnips5;42555605][url]http://www.laserpowersystems.com/[/url] sketchy as fuck everything. don't believe a word of this[/QUOTE] Oh man... [quote]Imagine a NEW power generation systems with UNLIMITED POWER that is emissions free, and totally green[/quote] Getting flashbacks from UNLIMITED DETAIL.

exactly how are you going to have a steam turbine in a car?

Well, all goes to show the power of Thor; more stable than Uranus but nonetheless very powerful. Also, if a thorium laser of only 8 grams could do this thing, imagine the power of a laser built using a kilogram of the stuff... And to address the cooling issue, maybe use some of the power generated to run a powerful cooling mechanism, or have the tank be filled with water and the superheated steam be diverted through an exhaust pipe?

It's the Ford Nucleon all over again :v:

[quote]The concept was first presented in the form of a prototype back in 2009 with the Cadillac World Thorium Fuel Concept (or known as the WTF car).[/quote] I must admit, this made me laugh.

I thought thorium was this miracle of nuclear energy because it can't melt down, is that not the case?

Um...8g of thorium is less than the weight of this smartphone I'm using at the moment and you are saying that can generate thousands of watts of power nonstop for twenty to thirty years... Seems a little farfetched when you also consider the weight of moving around all that fluid and shielding needed. Plus thorium itself isn't capable of maintaining a fissile reaction

[QUOTE=Sableye;42555740]Um...8g of thorium is less than the weight of this smartphone I'm using at the moment and you are saying that can generate thousands of watts of power nonstop for twenty to thirty years... Seems a little farfetched when you also consider the weight of moving around all that fluid and shielding needed. Plus thorium itself isn't capable of maintaining a fissile reaction[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.gereports.com/thorium-lasers-the-thoroughly-plausible-idea-for-nuclear-cars/[/url]

[QUOTE=Sableye;42555740]Um...8g of thorium is less than the weight of this smartphone I'm using at the moment and you are saying that can generate thousands of watts of power nonstop for twenty to thirty years... Seems a little farfetched when you also consider the weight of moving around all that fluid and shielding needed. Plus thorium itself isn't capable of maintaining a fissile reaction[/QUOTE] An iphone weighs about 112 grams, meaning its weight in thorium could power 14 of these cars "forever". [editline]aaaaaaaaa[/editline] Imagine several of these cars in a line and a gas leak. Downtown nuclear holocaust.

also wouldn't your car probably spontaneously combust if you ever exposed the thorium to open air? i don't really know a huge amount about thorium but i know it's pyrophoric

[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;42555557]What happens when you crash?[/QUOTE] [img]https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjlSVMjfINWWtrF8fiNZvzhSIBnxcWfPLYCG6YeBKCr2c6nhI3[/img]

That is the dumbest looking futuristic concept car render I have ever seen.

I could care less about the specifics, but a [b]laser powered car[/b]? Tell me that doesn't sound cool.

Thorium is difficult to synthesise, which currently makes this massively infeasible.

[QUOTE=Bradyns;42555884]Thorium is difficult to synthesise, which currently makes this massively infeasible.[/QUOTE] Isn't Thorium about ten times as common in the Earth than uranium? We don't need to synthesize it, unless you mean the enrichment process.

As long as it comes in 1950s flavor: [t]http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/f/f3/CorvegaMZ.png[/t]

[QUOTE=Bradyns;42555884]Thorium is difficult to synthesise, which currently makes this massively infeasible.[/QUOTE] I thought the idea was that it is super inexpensive and no one uses it right now. All I know is that it's basically the gobstopper of the nuclear world.