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1 posted on 04/19/2022 9:04:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
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We’re going back to Stanley Steamers!


2 posted on 04/19/2022 9:05:51 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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This has a sphere manufactured from water ice crystal's chance in a very hot, fiery environment of ever being commercially implemented.


3 posted on 04/19/2022 9:10:37 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Suppose the biggest deposit of Thorium is in Ukraine?


5 posted on 04/19/2022 9:11:45 AM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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. A 250 MW unit weighing about 500 lbs. (227 kg) would be small and light enough to drop under the hood of a car…

Or in a small shed in the back yard?

If is being considered for vehicle use, it must be affordable.

But that would mean the average household would be independent of the power grid.

Prog government types would never let that happen on a universal scale.

Gotta keep the peons dependent.

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6 posted on 04/19/2022 9:12:00 AM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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7 posted on 04/19/2022 9:14:30 AM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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https://youtu.be/02nAH_oAjeg

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8 posted on 04/19/2022 9:16:13 AM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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9 posted on 04/19/2022 9:18:19 AM PDT by sauropod (o may we start? It's timel to start. High time to start.)
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Are You Ready For: The Thorium-Laser-Steam-Turbine Electric Powertrain?

Sure, sharks with lasers on their heads aren't doing it for me.

10 posted on 04/19/2022 9:18:31 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Paging Kevmo


11 posted on 04/19/2022 9:22:58 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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250MW!

Good grief, sounds more like instead of plugging your car in to charge, the entire city plugs in to your car for their power -


12 posted on 04/19/2022 9:24:18 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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“A 250 MW unit weighing about 500 lbs. (227 kg) would be small and light enough to drop under the hood of a car…”

That’s over 335,000 horsepower. I want one!


13 posted on 04/19/2022 9:26:37 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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A quick solution that might ease the transition from internal combustion engines would be to use the energy to separate hydrogen from water and use the hydrogen in combustion engines until we don’t need them anymore.


17 posted on 04/19/2022 9:41:24 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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No oil, no emissions – nothing

Biden keeps talking about cars with gas engines but never talks about city street cars in large cities like they had in the 30’ to the 60’s.
Here in LA they bitch like hell when ever somebody wants to install one between the freeways but want another lane.


18 posted on 04/19/2022 9:46:31 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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You could put one in each house, too.


21 posted on 04/19/2022 10:01:19 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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It’s not a laser. It is heat machine. Lasers by definition amplify light


26 posted on 04/19/2022 10:16:20 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Article is from 2011


37 posted on 04/19/2022 11:31:45 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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“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!


42 posted on 04/19/2022 11:44:42 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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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.


43 posted on 04/19/2022 11:49:13 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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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.


44 posted on 04/19/2022 11:56:09 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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No need to tote a thorium power generator around. Build them for the home. Charge your electric vehicles with it.


48 posted on 04/19/2022 1:28:11 PM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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