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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:22 PM Original message |
Thorium powered cars in our future? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. Back to the Future!!! A flux capacitor!!! nt |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Well, it won't quite be a Mr. Fusion |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. More like a Mr. Crackpot. nt |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 11:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Well, that too |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:58 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. LOL - Kirk Sorensen discussed this... |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 01:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. This claims to use ADS, but the inventor of ADS says "The Nuclear Error, The Future is the Sun" |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. 250 MW Generator in your car??? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Let's wait to see what they have. |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. A "Fill Up" will have a petro-equivalent value of $60,000... in just 8 gm of Thorium Fuel |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:45 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. "Dr. Charles Stevens" - "Doctor" of what, exactly? |
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Rabblevox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 01:30 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. He ran a 1-person DNA modeling company, now is doing nuke research, and is founder of the Galactic |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 11:25 AM Original message |
That's why I want to see results before I get excited. |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Its ok to have a wait and see attitude |
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Kurmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. A typical small V8 weighs right around 500 lbs. |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:09 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. 250 MW? A nuclear power plant reactor is 1,110 MW, or tens of thousands of V8 engines... |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
9. can you IMAGINE |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 11:59 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. It would make the people who kept it from being distributed extremely wealthy. |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. well, there's that |
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johnd83 (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think thorium is an extremely promising fuel source |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 05:53 AM Response to Original message |
15. They're bringing back the Stanley Steamer? |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
16. Even if this would work, you will never be allowed to own one. |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
18. What happens when there's a car crash? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
20. Rare earth? keep dreaming. |
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