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You'll need 5 of them to get to the 1.21 gigawatts needed to power the time machine in Back to the Future.

To put the 250 MW in more common engine terms, that would be 335,000 horsepower.

Because thorium is so dense, similar to uranium, it stores considerable potential energy:

I call BS. Density isn't related to potential nuclear energy. Also thorium has a density of 11.72 g/cm³. Compare that to uranium at 18.95 g/cm³. Other common elements are lead at 11.342 g/cm³, gold at 19.282 g/cm³ and tungsten with 19.25 g/cm³.

27 posted on 08/13/2011 7:39:58 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Repubs and Dems are arguing whether to pour 9 or 10 buckets of gasoline on a burning house.)

41 posted on 08/13/2011 7:53:23 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)