Monday July 21, 2014
Written by: tech anon
“Car runs 1 million miles on 8 grams of Thorium”…It almost sounds too good to be true. So, is it? According to a company called Laser Power systems from Connecticut it is not only possible but, in the works.
After reading the article 4 times (which can be found in the link below) I find myself asking a few questions. Now, who am I to question the claims and possible fame of this red, white and blue cutting edge company? I’m purely a voice among the anonymous masses. I lived and spent my childhood on the proverbial “wrong side of the tracks”. I went to a college that specialized in industrial and mechanical processes. I work with my mind and hands together daily on anything from lawnmowers to conceptual science projects.
In theory? (A very general theory I might add) this sounds like a way to lead us into fossil fuel freedom. Watch out Duck Dodgers! Here we come!
Since the late 70’s and the gas crunch of the 80’s there’s been an unimaginable amount of small concept companies trying their best to come up with alternative fuels and systems to get us away from fossil fuels let alone baffle us with technical marvels from the far future. Residing at the top of my Swiss cheese memory is a company called Talbert Industries. Mr. Talbert came up with ideas of achieving over 100mpg with his fuel formula but lacked a delivery system. He did what all good mad scientists do and sent his minions to gather the people and beg for support in the form of their hard earned money. To make the ever so long story short, enamored in a majesty that only Dr. Who could weave, people gave him money…including my father the carpenter and my mother the makeup saleswoman. For the next few years updates and shareholder meetings came and went. One day an announcement arrived stating that Talbert industries had gotten notice of a very large supporter buying into the project and that the finish line was in sight. Mr. Talbert’s company was never heard from again. His private investor halted all progress and the project passed quietly into the night.
Now, we fast forward to 2014 and the concept of a Thorium driven vehicle. To do some quick and realistic mathematics; while following this theory, 8 grams of Thorium could produce enough energy to let a gasoline powered car that gets 20mpg over 1 million miles. Of course, there are no actual trials to prove this. As a simpleton I’ll ask “What about hills, valleys? Altitude? Weight? Cold? Heat?” The article states “The question is not, however, “if” they can get it to work, but “when” they can get it efficiently produced. When they do, they will have a vehicle that “will wear out before the engine. There is no oil, no emissions – nothing.” Quite the claim if you sit and think about it.
Hmmm…interesting. The Thorium would be used to create a laser, which would heat water which would, in turn, drive a number of mini turbines to produce electricity to drive the car. Elroy Jetson would proudly build this in his spare time from old toaster parts. In the deep, dark reaches of my mind and imagination I have no doubts that it’s possible with an intangible amount of work and technological jumps. This all brings me to one question. Will it be “allowed” to happen? Will it be allowed to playfully threaten the big car companies like the Hydrogen and the Hybrid electrics have? Maybe. Will some large super-secret investor come along with the sheckles to push the project through the roof only to make it disappear because it’ll affect the amount of money coming into his pocket from the big oil?
I sincerely wish you all the luck in the world Laser Power systems from Connecticut but, I must officially call shenanigans. Due to the greed and complacency of this thing we call our government and the overlordish rights they believe they have, I predict it will not happen in my lifetime unless the people smarten up, stand up and regain control…for the good of ALL. Not just some.
Links:
http://politicalblindspot.com/car-runs-1-million-miles-on-8-grams-of-thorium/
As a gearhead, I think this is very cool, but look beyond the single vehicle going 1,000,000 miles on that 8 grams. Why not build a portable home reactor which not only charges any EV, but your entire home as well?
How long night it last in such a capacity? I don’t know, but surely there are KWh numbers for this device somewhere…
WHAT THE F U C K IS THORIUM ?
I hope this answers n.n http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
Thorium is a Radioactive compound that was named after Thor. It is in the rare earth part of the periodic table and is one of the most radioactive isotopes. It can be found in nature but is, apparently, not naturally occurring. In short; this stuff is so radioactive it makes Plutonium, Uranium and Chernobylite all look like pussies.
Yeah, but it’s more stable than Uranium and Plutonium. It will be easier to control in the future. I think….
Wrong.. they knew about thorium back when they were building bombs.. the reason they didnt use it is because it wasnt as fissionable and it didnt create byproducts like plutonium…
which is why it would be considered more stable, it is at a lower energy state, but still produces a crazy amount of energy.
so there making a nucler powered car?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
It was discovered in 1828 by the Norwegian mineralogist
Did you drop out of high school?
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its a radioactive element
one simple search says this is severely false
http://energyfromthorium.com/2014/04/13/mythology-thorium-car-thorium-plasma-batteries/
The World Nuclear website says it’s true. Check it out:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Thorium/
So Why the hell aren’t we using it? It powers a house for 1000 years, WTF? And in the website they also say it can be used in Nucelar Reactors, but completely safe… No wonder everybody is talking about this now! I hope everybody in the world vote for this, so we can get rid of the Oil Companies forever!
Think about it, would all these big auto,and power companies ALLOW this to happer? No, they would swoop down on it and pick it apart before it can throw them of their thrones…
We were using it, actually. There were three Thorium nuclear plants in the US in the 1970’s. Two university lab reactors were shut down when Nixon axed all Thorium research, the commercial Thorium reactor, on Indian Point, New York (one of the first commercial reactors to open in the US, with construction begun in 1955), was converted to Uranium when the US Government began subsidizing Uranium. Why did the US shut down Thorium?
Because of the anti-nuclear treaties we signed with the Soviet Union.
You see, a Uranium nuclear reactor can be turned into a Plutonium factory by merely changing the fuel rod replacement schedule. A Thorium reactor is useless for nuclear weapons production – Thorium cannot produce weapons-grade Plutonium. The subsidies to Uranium were to enable the US to maintain plutonium production in case of war, while still proclaiming “peace!”
yes that would be nice, but voting has no effect on what really goes down.
Ya’ll are all a bunch of fucking idiots. OIL Industry is everywhere in everything. Without it you would have nothing. Ya sure in certain regions there would be prosperity from a byproduct extracted out of something else but unless you love war it would not be worth the life. Relize and think. All things have been shaped, guided, or produced by oil companies. So wake the fuck up from your dumbshit fairy tale
He’ll yes!!!!!
hope the car comes with a geiger counter
just because it has the “potential” to produce that much energy most of it will be impossible to harness becasue a 50 megaton nuclear bomb has the potential to blow up a continent but it wont because only 3% of the full mass is converted into explosive energy and you wont get shit out of it
I don’t like the idea of thousands of home reactors that run on an extraordinary radioactive material, than can be used for nuclear energy and even the production of fission material for nuclear weapons.
i would invest in thorium right now.
Check out Thorium nuclear reactors
Half the size and cost of the reactors that are being built today
Anything that threatens the petrodollar will be destroyed by our loving and caring goverments (UK and US)
Im going to assume that it’s fake.
theres nothing to assume as soon as i saw the word thorium i already knew it was bullshit
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele090.html here is the element thorium since you believe it only exists in a video game.
Read the official World Nuclear Organization website it says it’s true. Check it out:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Thorium/
Excellent idea for the consumer. However, I doubt the big shots in BP and their friends in high places 😉 would allow that to happen. It would cost them too much, surely?
Also, living in a particularly cold country. I find my vehicle ices over several times over the year. How would that be combated if water was my primary source of fuel?
Errr.. A laser that zaps water.. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have any issues burning through a block of ice.
My thinking too is that this would be not only suitable for vehicles but for home use. I wouldn’t know the method of determining how much or how long such an energy source would supply a house, but … I’m thinking years if not decades.
Wow this is amazing. I wish them the best off luck. I hope in my life time the people smarten up and stand up so I can see this achieved.
Greedy obama no happy.
Where did that comment come from? You better look at the Koch Brothers who be “no happy”
a man invented an motor engine that ran on water in the u.s.a after he went public with it in a video with the local media he got arrested and jailed
The idea of one million miles on 8 grams of thorium sounds great, but I on the other hand I wouldn’t even consider sitting on a nuclear reactor. Ever.
thorium is radioactive
Bad link
Why do people wanna fuck with radioactive shit? You all clearly know the effects of it don’t be stupid
Why they wanna fuck with radioactive shit? You ALL know clearly the effects of radioactive shit
Excuse the repeating comment hehe
A mi me gustaria ser de los anonimos
A mi me gustaria ser de los anonimos por eso cree aurelios como si fuera ellos
Thats the problem, thorium is too common. Big business needs things in short supply to drive ridiculous costs to make ridiculous profits. Until this changes, thorium will never be used for nuclear energy
Pleasant enough sounding, but like the author i call shenanigans.
Feasible, until you dont get chronic illness due to radioactivity of Thorium with an unstable core or probably die. Any human tissue can be damaged by ionizing radiation in a unique manner. AND RADIOACTIVITY DOES THE WORK. probably Cancer, mutation in DNA, and death in a couple of hours or a maximum of 3 days. LOL. And that energy won’t be produced without radiations and they would kill us. xD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568iDYn8pjc
Anonymous…
How about using an infinite supply of power called the SUN?
use the sun’s energy and store it. Split H2o into H and O gas and tank it, or use it directly in the form of electricity, or synthetize pump gas for the usual cars. I’m not going to Mars.
ahh well if only it was that easy…. makes me wish i did chemistry
my biggest gripe has nothing to do with the fuel used (although still an issue) but how for so many years light water reactors (or similar) have been built everywhere when fast breeders have been around just as long and with next to none of the safety issues or huge wastage. Of course now with all the talk of thorium it seems to go without saying (in most of what i have read so far) that it is used in fast breeder type reactors, as if everyone already acknowledges that all the current reactors (including the next hundred already in planning stages) are all ultimately ridiculous to even consider building due to waste safety etc etc.. people who are against nuclear power are really just against these old unsafe wasteful (and even used for refining weapons grade material, worrying that china plans to triple (or more) the number of these reactors in the future (hmm well had plans but now i recall somewhere seeing that they may be the growth area for the new gen reactors maybe less worrying oops lol ah well)
got a bit off topic… thorium reactors awesome, small portable reactors in cars? feels like to me like a good number of years are needed yet before that happens
radiation nation
Thorium is a crystalline salt when heated becomes a liquid. At 2500 degrees. The whole point of a nuclear reactor is to make water into steam to turn a turbine to make electricity. While there is no vapor pressure to the reactor, you can imagine flashing a gallon of water into steam creates about 100 times that space cubically which is a lot of pressure. So yes. A lot of fucking explosions when that boiler goes. The technology is the same as a steam engine, we just replace the fire with something that has a 15 billion year half life, and is a radioactive liquid at 2500 degrees, and a crystalide salt at ambient temperature. It’s the most abundant radioactive material on the planet at .25ppm, and apparently is all over the moon as well, because it is in all our rock. What we need to do is get some black projects unclassified to benefit humanity. Anonymous please prepare the world for disclosure. Either two possibilities exist, that are equally terrifying. We either are alone or we are not. I firmly believe the latter, and that our nuclear tech comes from the stars. I doubt humans even created the combustion engine. Or hell even made fire or clothes on our own. I think we’re to stupid for aliens to want to fuck with us, except as a slave species, and our only interaction with actual intelligent life comes directly from cloned biological entities, who serve their true masters not us. Apollo 20. http://Www.serpo.org