A car featuring a thorium-powered engine can run 100 years with no refuelling
This car is manufactured by a company named Laser Power Systems. Because cars normally burn out long before the chemical does, the firm studied and successfully made a car with the engine powered by thorium. The carmaker used the radioactive element to build a beam of laser that heats water, producing steam and powering an energy-generating turbine.


The Thorium Car is manufactured by a company named Laser Power Systems


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68A_HPYGdlk
Car Runs For 100 Years Without Refueling

Thorium is among the densest materials on earth. A tiny bit of thorium can produce the energy that 20 million times larger than the same amount of coal can produce, which make it a great alternative energy source.

Isn't it great for fuel scarcity in Nigeria?

Source: https://naijauto.com/market-news/the-car-could-run-100-years-with-no-refuelling-363

Naija which way forward?? Our fuel 'll be a waste soon

Hmmm

Very soon we go dey drink the oil with cup... ,

Guys above me still have hope for Naija

This is where hope is, in my signature

This is great. Once a new technology comes out in a country scientists all over the world begin to work to replicate that invention but here in Nigeria we are still trying to replicate 1959 technology without success.

I wonder what countries will still be buying Nigeria's oil in the future.

This is a NO for me, any radioactive spillage u, the street ua driving on will be gone

Guapismo:
I wonder what countries will still be buying Nigeria's oil in the future.

Biafra

Lobatan!

which kind car be this? looks beautiful but not it at all

I laugh at people who say this will replace oil

Story

There may be adverse effect. I hope it's good.

This is a nice concept, and even marvelling is the length of life span an 8kg of Thorium can give to a car - 100 years!!!!

But as good as it sounds, we may never see it in the commercial market. If you watched the YouTube video, you will understand that Thorium has been discovered since the adoption of Uranium for powering nuclear plant.

Thorium was a much better source of energy than uranium could ever be but because an industry has been built around Uranium, it's was difficult (more like impossible) to shift focus to Thorium, all thanks to the powers that be.

And don't get it twisted, our oil will still sell for the next 50 years, at least. The whole world is not ready for the adoption of electricity as the source of energy for our machines (not just vehicles). The (or rather, some) developed countries will have to take the first steps, and it's not starting until the next five years; before the likes of the third world countries. After the initial adoption comes the mass adoption: at this stage, a significant number of citizens should able to afford an electric car, which will take a lot of time. Dangote wouldn't be dumping billions of $$$ on his refinery site if it's true that no one will be using oil in the next 10 years. The world doesn't work like that; many adjustments, realignments, and check and balance needs to happen. The concept of electric cars has been in existence as far as the 1960s, see how far it has gone.

For Thorium, its use as an energy source might not happen in our generation. It will have to battle oil, electricity, and uranium for a place. And that is a long way to fight through.

I have a message for the government of this corner of the globe: "Our mind and brain are sleeping. We are not thinking."

Good development

But am sure some jihadist somewhere will be looking for a way to weaponise it

Will never be allowed to go commercial ..it will die as a concept

[quote author=friimarket01 post=66221179]This is great. Once a new technology comes out in a country scientists all over the world begin to work to replicate that invention but here in Nigeria we are still trying to replicate 1959 technology without success.[/quolte]

Your head is correct.

This can never be approved. Imagine the whole lot of cars numbering millions having this radioactive metal which produces about 20 million times larger energy than the same amount of coal can produce. We dont need to say we will be walking around in disaster. An explosive accident of one car can cause a chain reaction (as most radioactive substances do).


If you check that video well, the car has not be made. They are only proposing

Nice but we don't need a SpaceX car in Nigeria

our oil ohhh

We don't need a demon called car. This is actually a demon, i need venza

Ok

It probably cost you 100 years to by one and when you buy it it becomes obsolete

Proudlyngwa:
I laugh at people who say this will replace oil

Sure, it won't.

But Oil is gradually being replaced by alternative source of energy like electricity and solar.

Coal was touted as being irreplaceable at the time of its use till it was dumped.

Meanwhile some people be wasting our trillions and looking for about to be obsolete crude oil in the desert nonsense.

fashola and bubu should buy small thorium na....make we de see light 24/7

while dullard buhari is busy drilling oil well at chad basin just to keep financing his Islamic agenda .... Yusuf must pay with his blood

We have nuclear submarines, we are about to have nuclear cars.