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Title: 8 Grams Of Thorium To Power A Car For More Than 300,000 Miles
Source: Car News Break
URL Source: http://www.carnewsbreak.com/news/10 ... car-for-more-than-300000-miles
Published: Sep 14, 2011
Author: Vlad Balan
Post Date: 2011-09-14 01:44:03 by farmfriend
Keywords: None
Views: 182
Comments: 10

8 Grams Of Thorium To Power A Car For More Than 300,000 Miles

By Vlad Balan
September 5th, 2011

American company Laser Power Systems claims to have found the optimum solution to fuel all existing cars in the world at a much lower cost than petrol. And if you’re expecting this solution to be hydrogen, you’re wrong, it’s a radioactive element, called Thorium. According to the company’s scientists, the 90th element in the periodic table can be a great power source for cars.

Even though the company’s officials didn’t release too much info about the technology, it’s definitely an electric powertrain, with the “conventional” Lithium-ion batteries being replaced by a Thorium-powered source. The heat produced by Thorium will be used to generate steam through a turbine, the pressure produced being used to power a generator producing electricity. At least in theory, the technology is a lot more accessible than the lithium-ion one.

According to the scientist working on this project, even though Thorium is a radioactive material, it’s very safe for both the cars’ passengers and the environment for two reasons: the Thorium quantity required is extremely low and the element only releases Alpha radiations, which cannot penetrate human skin. Apparently, for full protection, all it takes is an aluminum foil wrapped around the Thorium container.

And now, let’s see the numbers part and let us tell you, if this technology really is viable, then we’re looking at an ideal situation. Because it only takes 8 grams of Thorium to power a car for more than 300,000 miles and considering Thorium is as common as lead (the total reserve is estimated at 1.3 billion tons), this means that we could power all the cars in the world for several hundreds years. According to United States Geological Survey, the largest Thorium reserves are found in the United States, Australia and India.

Even though this sounds really breakthrough, Thorium-powered cars is not a new concept, because two years ago, Cadillac has unveiled the World Thorium Fuel Concept, a vehicle powered by a similar technology and the Detroit carmaker was presenting Thorium as the future of world mobility.

Now, there are only two questions left. First one, is this technology really viable? And second and perhaps the most important, after seeing dozens of conspiracy movies, we’re wondering if the multi-billion dollar oil industry will allow this technology to be developed on scale and implemented on working cars anytime soon.


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I've heard of thorium reactors before. I'll try and dig up a link for that.

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#2. To: farmfriend (#0)

The PTB may be running this out because of the Italian Professor who appears to have developed a workable cold fusion generator that could do the same thing. So, the PTB own the Thorium mines but not the Professor, and practical cold fusion also would put nuclear fission plants up there with the DoDo - along with wind, geothermal, and solar - all technologies that are currently controlled and touted by the PTB.

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#3. To: Original_Intent (#2)

yes it would. that's the problem with having taken the red pill, you start to question the reality and motivations for everything!

Got a link to that reactor story?

farmfriend  posted on  2011-09-14   2:27:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#4. To: farmfriend (#3)

I remember Thorium. It's about 4x more abundant than fissionable uranium, and to get and keep a reaction going with thorium is harder which is a good thing because in the event of a Fukushima type event, the reactor can be just switched off without any heating/meltdown issues.

The other disadvantage of thorium is you can't use the reactors to make nuclear bombs, which is why no one wants to bother messing with the nasty stuff.

Pinguinite  posted on  2011-09-14 02:44:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: farmfriend (#3)

www.renewableenergyworld....ss-in-tiny-4-7-kw-reactor

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