This might ave the fuel company's woried

I just came across an article on a science website (can’t post a link).

" In breaking news on the energy and technology front, Laser Power Systems, a U.S. company based out of Connecticut is developing a method of automotive propulsion using the element thorium to produce electricity. The results far surpass anything currently powering automobiles. To put it in perspective, 8 grams of Thorium produce enough power for a car to drive 1 million miles.
Thorium is similar in structure to the element uranium. Because it is an incredibly a dense material it has the potential to produce tremendous heat, and thus energy.
Charles Stevens, the CEO of Laser Power Systems CEO, explains that just one gram of thorium yields more energy than 28,000 liters of gasoline. Just eight grams of thorium, Stevens explains, would produce more energy than the vehicle could use in its entire life, without the need for refueling… ever.
Stevens explained in an interview with Ward’s Auto, that small pieces of thorium have been used to generate heat, being positioned to create a thorium laser in the vehicle. The laser heats water which produces steam, which in turn powers a series of “mini-turbines.”
The entire engine weighs only about 500 lbs and is light and compact enough to fit under the hood of any conventional vehicle.
Stevens and his 40 employees are now trying to answer the question of: “How do you take the laser and put these things together efficiently?”
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.”
Far from conceptual, this has worked in the thorium-powered 2009, Cadillac World Thorium Fuel Concept, presented by Loren Kulesus. Aside from adjusting this innovative model’s 24 tyres every five years, Kulesus explained that nothing else would need to be added to the vehicle, including fuel for more than a century of use

The whole world would crash, the illuminati will keep that little gem under wraps for a few more hundred years until we have passed “peak oil” and we run out of fossil fuels completely.
On a similar basis, have we really not found a cure for the common cold?
Imagine what would happen to the pharmaceutical industry, all those paracetamol tablets, cough mixtures, cough sweets etc etc the whole lot would crash if we could just be vaccinated like the flu … It’s just what I’ve heard, I personally don’t know what to believe :slight_smile:

How cool is that ?

Back to Victorian Times, we can all drive Steam Powered Traction Engines, without the need to get up at 3 in the morning to stoke the boiler.

The only problem though - I bet Thorium cost a million quid a gram !!!

martinviking:
The only problem though - I bet Thorium cost a million quid a gram !!!

If it doesn’t, it soon will.

Every investor will be out there buying it now, real cheap, just in case.

martinviking:

The only problem though - I bet Thorium cost a million quid a gram !!!

Actually it doesn’t (at the moment), it’s more abundant than Uranium, and there are known deposits all over the world. The reason it was never taken further was that it did not have the ability to produce weapons grade Plutonium, which is what Uranium can do. The Chinese are investing money into developing it - good old Cameron, looking towards the past with his new Somerset reactor.

Beard + Sandals with Socks = Science.

Be great if they can get it to work, fed up of being held to ransom by the A rabs & government taxing the bejesus out of it.

Silver_Surfer:
Beard + Sandals with Socks = Science.

Be great if they can get it to work, fed up of being held to ransom by the A rabs & government taxing the bejesus out of it.

Arrrr Tax, I forgot about Tax.

Thorium will be 1p a Gram, but the Tax will be £999,999.99p per Gram.

Bit like Alcohol & Petrol now !