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Imagine the fun and games if we had nuclear cars come on the market...


Imagine the fun and fiasco if we had nuclear cars.... Well we have submarines that run on nuclear fuel and don't need refuelling for years at a stretch so what fun it would be if cars were like that..

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This was researched in the 1950s, and a concept developed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

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Well there you go didn't know that..... OMG the back, the reactor looks like the one from Back To The Future......

I wonder how a nuclear car would have run, how effecient or not.

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Yea, I was wondering this myself. How do nuclear vehicles, such as those submarines, run? As I was just reading, nuclear reactors are just a way to boil water! So in a nuclear submarine, do they have the nuclear fuel boil seawater, which causes steam to expand out into turbines, which turn generators, which generate electricity, which then powers the motors which turn the propellers? That just seems like such a round-about way of doing it. I like solar much better, where LIGHT impinging on silicon is converted directly into electricity.

But we have to know how to do this, since, as we now know, cold fusion is a reality and not just some crazy nonsense . So how are we going to engineer our automobiles to be powered this way?


Lets intensively research Cold Fusion NOW! http://bit.ly/hBBwtP

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Trust me,if any company started developing a likey solution to mass cold fusion they would quickly find that 747 were unnaturally attracted to their work place....
If anyone out there is thinking of doing this-DO IT IN COMPLETE SECRECY PLEASE

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