We now have some hybrid or electric cars, fuel cell or hydrogen engine. Americans are prepared to blow a new technology: nuclear power.
The genies from Laser Power Systems company have a project for a new turbine generator power with laser that uses thorium (Th), a slightly radioactive metal. This is considered to be the nuclear fuel of the future.
Thorium is less radioactive than uranium and can be exploited in quarries and surface. Minimal environmental impact and costs of recovery are reduced.
Note that the nuclear reactor is not burning out plutonium 239 witch is a radioactive element used in the manufacture of atomic bombs.
How the engine works?
Thorium would be heated by a laser beam to produce heat and steam. The steam is operating a generator of electricity. Only eight grams of thorium are enough to run a car over a distance of 460,000 kilometers.
Technology is "stolen" from submarines and aircrafts, and in 2009 Cadillac introduced the first car with this technology.
By Infinity100ideas
The genies from Laser Power Systems company have a project for a new turbine generator power with laser that uses thorium (Th), a slightly radioactive metal. This is considered to be the nuclear fuel of the future.
Thorium is less radioactive than uranium and can be exploited in quarries and surface. Minimal environmental impact and costs of recovery are reduced.
Note that the nuclear reactor is not burning out plutonium 239 witch is a radioactive element used in the manufacture of atomic bombs.
How the engine works?
Thorium would be heated by a laser beam to produce heat and steam. The steam is operating a generator of electricity. Only eight grams of thorium are enough to run a car over a distance of 460,000 kilometers.
Technology is "stolen" from submarines and aircrafts, and in 2009 Cadillac introduced the first car with this technology.
By Infinity100ideas
