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09 Sep 2011, 5:18 pm

Nuclear powered automobiles are the future.

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09 Sep 2011, 5:28 pm

i thought the volt could run its gennie on ethanol?

if so it is a very cheap alternative, even today when the industry is practically nonexistent.

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09 Sep 2011, 6:00 pm

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Nuclear powered automobiles are the future.

There will be no nuclear powered automobiles. There will be electric cars and the electricity will come from nuclear powered generating stations. A nuclear reactor is too heavy to be carried in a car or a plane. In a ship, it is feasible to carry a nuclear reactor.

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10 Sep 2011, 1:59 am

thorium powered cars are coming closer to reality. 8 grams can provide you with up to 300,000 miles of driving. Emission free with no need for charging, it can power your car your entire driving lifetime.

http://www.txchnologist.com/volumes/adv ... clear-cars

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10 Sep 2011, 3:47 am

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Wake up! The shielding is so heavy it makes such a vehicle impractical. The way to use nukes is to generate electricity at a nuclear generating plant and ship the electrical energy to a nearby charging station.

Electricity is not radioactive. A thorium reactor is.

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10 Sep 2011, 9:41 am

ruveyn wrote:

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Wow. Ruveyn sure wakes up early for an old man.

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10 Sep 2011, 10:54 am

pandabear wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

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Wow. Ruveyn sure wakes up early for an old man.

Ruveyn has forgotten more physics than some of these Idiot Children ever knew.

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10 Sep 2011, 12:22 pm

So what's wrong with a nuclear powered car that weighs as much as a big rig tractor trailer?

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10 Sep 2011, 12:29 pm

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So what's wrong with a nuclear powered car that weighs as much as a big rig tractor trailer?

You have no idea about how much a reactor weights. You need something the size of a large ship to have a movable reactor. Our nuclear submarines displace as much tonnage as a WW2 air craft carrier. Our nuclear powered air-craft carriers displace as much tonnage as two Titanics.

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10 Sep 2011, 12:39 pm

If a nuclear reactor cannot be used in an airplane why did the Government spend a billion dollars to develop the concept?

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10 Sep 2011, 12:59 pm

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If a nuclear reactor cannot be used in an airplane why did the Government spend a billion dollars to develop the concept?

Because they are stupid and always willing to waste taxpayer money
as long as it does not help anyone (cuz that would be socialism)
and they can paint a flag on it.

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10 Sep 2011, 1:33 pm

A Conservative would tell me that he would rather have his tax money go to the atomic powered airplane rather than some welfare queen.

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11 Sep 2011, 3:48 am

Want efficiency in an engine? Turbo Diesel.

http://www.transmitmedia.com/golfTDI/

Just an example. I really don't know why most of the world doesn't use it. The modern turbo diesel engines are quiet and just as responsive as gasoline engines, and they use maybe 30% less fuel, something like that.

And if you run out of diesel, make peanut oil.

http://www.dieselsecret.com/drdiesel.html

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11 Sep 2011, 4:48 am

androbot2084 wrote:

Nuclear powered automobiles are the future.

As they will be, a hundred years from now.

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