Powering your car with thorium!

[thewayne]

1 gram, stimulated by a laser, could theoretically produce as much energy as 7,500 gallons of gasoline. 8 grams could power your car for it's entire life. An engine could come in at 500 lbs containing a laser and a steam/turbine loop.


This sounds pretty awesome. Even if they only used it in power plants, it would be a tremendous savings. It sounds like it can be spooled up from zero to lots of heat in a very short period of time, they're talking about direct output for a car: no batteries. And they think they'll have prototypes on the road in 2 years!


http://wardsauto.com/ar/thorium_power_car_110811/


http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/8-grams-of-thorium-could-replace-gasoline-in-cars-20110812/


http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/12/172229/8-Grams-of-Thorium-Could-Replace-Gasoline-In-Cars

Comments

[silveradept]

That would be cool. We should keep an eye on this in case a petrol company decides they want to purchase and then kill the design to prevent us from having full-range electric vehicles that can provide plenty of power.