Posted on 04/19/2022 9:04:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
he is not
“These create steam from water within mini-turbines, generating electricity to drive a car. A 250 MW unit weighing about 500 lbs. (227 kg) would be small and light enough to drop under the hood of a car… “
Dream on!
Swap out the 4000lbs battery in a Tesla Plaid and put in a 500 lbs Thorium Steam generator.
250 MW is 25485.5 bhp.
It’d be tough to keep that hooked to the ground even at 200 MPH.
I’d go “all in” on this idea.
Ah... Here we go. This makes more sense now...
https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/thorium-laser-car-my-ass/
https://www.laserpowersystems.com/
Oh well... Back to dreaming about an -e car that actually works rather than expensive toy for idiots.
Exactly the opposite to what you said. Hydrogens auto ignition temp is twice that of petrol. It’s octane rating is also double.because of that. The issue with hydrogen is its nasty habit of embrittling iron compounds you know like steel. And its wide explosive air to H2 range from 4% to 74%.
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1123676_the-8-differences-between-gasoline-and-hydrogen-engines
“Hydrogen’s automatic ignition temperatures are also much higher, around 500 degrees Celsius versus about 230 Celsius for gasoline. This means hydrogen has a higher octane, which allows the engine to run at higher compression ratios.”
This post brought to you by team Cummins...
https://www.cummins.com/news/2022/01/13/making-splash-hydrogen-internal-combustion-engines
So? All energy is not easily used in mobile application.
Hydrogen has the potential to be a mobil fuel source, similar to gasoline.
But, if we can get a 250 MW Thorium source, at less than 500 lbs, we don't need gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, whatever. just use the power from the 250 MW source!
No need to tote a thorium power generator around. Build them for the home. Charge your electric vehicles with it.
Zero to sixty in...OOPS! What was that?
What conversion factor are you using? If I use 1 kW = 1.341 hp, I get 250,000 kW = 335,250 hp.
They must be using ceramic cylinders, or something like that. Hydrogen embrittlement is a bitch.
Maybe Titanium? Lined with Unobtainium?
There are several mass impact sites visible in North America.
Gulf of Mexico and Hudson Bay are most apparent, and yes absolutely catastrophic.
Impact around Hudson Bay was likely deep impact. There are large fault zones which correspond, as well as volcanism around parts of the Canadian Shield, Upper Midwest US, Onterio, all the way over to Quebec.
In many of these areas, we are talking large hard rock igneous, iron, copper, and uranium formations.
Since it was a steam engine, boiler hp rather than brake hp.
https://convertlive.com/u/convert/megawatts/to/boiler-horsepower#250
Drinking free bubble up and eating rainbow stew with a silver spoon.🙄
I think brake hp would be more appropriate for an automotive application. To be honest, I had never even heard of boiler horsepower, so I learned something today, thanks due to you.
Call it what you will, it’s an absurd amount of power for a car if it all went to the driveshaft. I suspect the writer might have meant 250 kW, or about 335 brake horsepower.
I was obviously misinformed! Thanks for the correction.
Considering the lead articles subject turned out to be vaporware... But still...
I like the idea of having an -e vehicle with onboard power generation. Just storage is stupid. Same reason we don’t use flywheels to store kinetic energy to power the drive train...
Exactly.🤔
That would be quite a powerplant. 250 MW is around 333,000 horsepower. It would give you zero to 60 times of around a few microseconds if you would find good enough tires.
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