Combustible
fuel car is not only harmful to our pocket but also to our ecosystem. Electric
cars have been an alternative but here comes a better option “THORIUM POWERED CAR”
This
idea of powering a car using a radioactive metal thorium was introduced by
Laser Power System. This is a company founded in 2007 with the basic concept of
powering laser using thorium.
Thorium
is a radioactive metal with the symbol ‘Th’ and has atomic number 90. It is one
of the densest materials known in nature. Thorium appears silvery in nature
often with black tarnish. Thorium is one of the three radioactive elements
(including Bismuth and Uranium) that still occur in nature. It produces about
90 times much energy as Uranium and a fraction of waste which are not used for
making bomb.
Thorium
was discovered by Morten Throne Esmark in 1828 and was named after the Norse
god of thunder by a Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius. Thorium was first
used by Alvin M. Weinberg in the molten salt reactor.
The
working principal of this car is that Thorium powers a laser beam which
generates a huge amount of heat; this heat is used to boil water into steam
this steam is then used to move the mechanical parts of the vehicle engine
making it move and this process can continue for hundred years nonstop.
Laser
Power System CEO, Charles Steven assured that the car is not radioactive, a
single sheet of aluminum foil is enough to protect passengers from the
radiation when in the vehicle and in his words he said you will get more
radiation from one of those dental X-rays than from the vehicle
This
concept can also be used as alternative to power electric generators in home or
towns.
But the deadline of every product is with the
consumers; would you drive a car powered by thorium or prefer to generate
electricity in your homes with Thorium element?
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