Not quiet sure what to make of this but at any rate here it is, Thorium powered cars
It would be nice if thorium pans out as so many envisions. dm
This week’s Txchnologist, the online magazine sponsored by GE, examines a far-out technological innovation that might just contain a kernel of plausibility: a thorium laser power generation system that its creator says could provide electricity for the grid, stand-alone power applications and even cars.
Charles Stevens, an inventor and entrepreneur, recently revealed that his Massachusetts-based R&D firm, Laser Power Systems (LPS), is working on a turbine/electric generator system that is powered by “an accelerator-driven thorium-based laser.” The thorium laser does not produce a beam of coherent light like conventional lasers, but instead merely heats up and gives off energy.
Thorium, a silvery-white metal, is a mildly radioactive element (with an atomic weight of 90) that is as abundant as lead. It is present in large quantities in India and is a much-touted stand in for uranium in nuclear reactors because its fission is not self-sustaining, a type of reaction called “sub-critical.”
The idea has energized the small but active thorium community, which holds that it is the answer to our clean energy needs because it could, effectively, power a car forever. The new technology “would be totally emissions-free,” Stevens said, “with no need for recharging.”
The rest: http://www.gereports.com/thorium-lasers-the-thoroughly-plausible-idea-for-nuclear-cars/
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Just because that's the definition of a laser.
Hugo Gernsback would be proud.
