15 January 2009

Now This Is What I Call a .... a .... a .... Long Range Thorium Powered Vehicle

Go 100 years without having to re-fuel. Imagine how far you could go on one fill-up.
Created by Loren Kulesus, everything about the WTF has been created to last 100 years without maintenance. That's the reason for the element number ninety, thorium: to act as a nuclear fuel powering batteries that would power the car.

Elsewhere, every major system is redundant in case of a failure. And the wheels don't have individual tires - in fact, what's located at each corner is one combined unit made up of six individual wheels. That gives you 24 wheels in total, and each wheel has its own induction motor. Said Kulesus, "The vehicle would require the tires to be adjusted every five years, but no material would need to be added or subtracted." _Autoblog_via_EphemeralIsle
For the bonus round, list ten different ways to make this vehicle amphibious -- float like a boat, fly like a plane, submerge like a submarine, etc. Reminds me of the film "Repo Man." Uh, officer, I really don't think you want to look in there . . .

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