COULD HEAVY METAL THORIUM FUEL CARS IN THE FUTURE?
July 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LITTLE more excites the international auto industry more than the search for an alternative to fossil fuels, and an American company is now looking seriously into the idea of using a heavy element thorium to generate locomotive power.
The key to this system developed by US-based inventor, Charles Stevens, CEO and chairman of Laser Power Systems LLC, is that when silvery metal thorium is heated by an external source, it is so dense its molecules become so excited and give off more heat than applied in the first place. Speaking to wardsauto, ...
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