Does this make any sense to anyone?
Are they talking about incorporating a thorium fission reactor in a car? :eek: Or is it something else? Or has the reporter just been pranked?
it’s so light on detail that I can’t figure out if the reporter is missing facts or if the whole thing is a steaming pile. I mean, a laser “heats” the thorium, and “heat surges” boil water to run a steam turbine. Since we obey thermodynamics in this house, the “heat surges” must be coming from either fission or radioactive decay.
I can’t believe there was no mention of dilithium crystals.
Here’s the company’s website. It doesn’t look promising.
yep. woo detector’s going off.
You can expect to see a flying car long before you see a Mr. Thorium® auto.
They must have spent hours and tens of dollars on that website.
But it’s Thorium!!! Where do I send the money??? Don’t you all get it???
Yes, I’m kidding.
No no no, you have it wrong. The Thorium’s not worth investing in. You want to invest in the technology that unlocks it’s value.
At least it’s slightly more creative than a car powered by “Browns Gas”. I’d like to know if he has actually sucked in any investors.
I hope to see what the new Highwayman and Corvega models will look like.
Not that it isn’t bullshit, but perhaps they’re claiming that the thorium can form a nuclear isomer battery. Shades of the hafnium bomb!
Ford Motor Company actually had a concept for a nuclear powered car.
I know, sounds crazy and it is but they really did consider one.
Yeah, but that was around the time when everything in the future was going to be atomic.
Next on Sixty Minutes, Ford and their nuclear-powered Pinto.