a company known as laser power systems believes that they can create a car that
runs on something known as thorium and as a result
it can actually be powered for about a hundred years on just
eight grams up the fuel now for those of you who don't know with ornaments and
I'm sure there are many %uh view because
I had no idea with or emails it's actually a radioactive metal
and there have been cases in the past
where on nuclear power plants were
supposed to be powered by Florian instead of uranium however the nixon
administration next it
now it's really really fascinating mother boarded this great documentary
that you guys should check out on YouTube
we took a little part a bit where they explain what the worry im is take a
quick look at that and we'll discuss this car
a decade before he called nuclear power society's biggest
now steenburgen Alvin weinberg was one of the country's leading nuclear
physicists
he invented the light water reactor the world's most common kind today
the type used in Fukushima but in the nineteen sixties
as director Oak Ridge National Laboratory he began to pursue another
idea
called the molten salt reactor instead of operating at high pressure
with the solid-fuel native uranium who worked at low pressure
using liquid fuel they could be made up story amid
3m has many advantages it can produce about 90 times as much energy as uranium
in a fraction at the waist and that waste isn't useful for making bombs
the reactor was considered walk away safe
because it relied on physics not machines are humans
to keep the reaction under control so so why said Anna
act I get so sad about all the progress that was stopped in its tracks
because once we started using uranium and once we start doing nuclear
power plants well then a whole industry
developed around that way loved getting energy around it you're a great
exactness
right so then people like world and I got no use for thorium
like I don't make money that way make money this way that's exactly right
we're gonna go in that direction for
decades on end right or so what's fascinating about what's happening today
is obviously we need alternative forms of energy
right and thorium is a possibility for that so so love you might wonder why is
it that we're not going forward with it
well I would like to see more information about it and you know I
would like to see more research into it and the
wave doing more research the way of getting more funding for it is to change
the mindset about nuclear energy because story on is another form of nuclear
energy and of course there is a lot of negative press
about that so that's what's going on with %uh
you know power plants but let's talk about the car little bit
so this story in fueled automobile would
as I mentioned earlier run for a hundred years I just eight grams a few at least
that's according to their concept car
could I mean I can't believe a car can run for a hundred years period
even if you have to refuel right but like inconceivable to me
so I is the funny thing is I'm so cheap that I saw that part of the story and I
thought
you know what I don't need it for a hundred years I'll just buy two groups
I love your resume is just
well president how expensive it is of course but so apparently would be much
more cost efficient yes let me tell you how it would work
%uh according are to the company because thorium is so dense
it has the potential to produce tremendous amounts of heat
the company has been experimenting with small bit south of korea
creating a laser that heats water produces steam and powers
a mini turbine arm just one gram but the substance yields more energy
then %uh 7300 ninety six gallons of gasoline and
a grab for power the typical car for a century
Scott frickin lasers on its head but now I know that the
designer the car doesn't mess living in North Korea but how badass and icarly
yeah so that car is not the car that's being designed by laser power systems
that's actually different cards the Cadillac world
thorium fuel concept car sign up
yeah it was designed I by a different company
I'll face alone I'm going for a story if you end up with or even a car should
look like that
and how cool story a name below mccade
it is I look into this it is in fact named after four because it was
a scientist I believe from Norway that given some information to sign this from
Sweden who then
you know the nail that down and and so he named it
after four the Norse God how awesome would it be if it turns out
for save the planet there are so many exciting
technological advances under way you know the hyper loop
you know all these great things that'll get us to where we need to go
more efficiently and i'm looking forward to that I hope I survive long enough to
experience a little bit
at least I how he learned to be if it turns out the people who believed in
four
save the planet and not Jesus they go around labor like oh what now Jesus
what now turns south or was coming back I've been seen online
the says everywhere they say
you know jesus promised their rid the world to people
ODN promise to rid the world of ice giants you see any ice giants
mean think about it had planned here are 12
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