Thorium lasers: The thoroughly plausible idea for nuclear cars | Txchnologist
I didn't fully understand, or read the whole article, but it got me thinking about what lasers could do, and whether we could make a thorium laser (since I have no clue). It also had a nice picture of something that looks almost like a Bugatti Veyron.
I saw thorium rods on Ebay and I seem to recall some people use Tritium, and was wondering if this a similar "well its radioactive, but you can still buy it and use it in laser experiments" material, or more like a "oh look, you have a stock pile of ____ and plutonium and DHS is putting you on a no fly list".
When I was at a community college, we saw people getting into hydrogen power, and they had solar powered hydrogen kits attached to small electric cars. The idea that I could take some semi affordable radioactive metal and make a laser powered super car has awakened my Mad Scientist bug.
I didn't fully understand, or read the whole article, but it got me thinking about what lasers could do, and whether we could make a thorium laser (since I have no clue). It also had a nice picture of something that looks almost like a Bugatti Veyron.
I saw thorium rods on Ebay and I seem to recall some people use Tritium, and was wondering if this a similar "well its radioactive, but you can still buy it and use it in laser experiments" material, or more like a "oh look, you have a stock pile of ____ and plutonium and DHS is putting you on a no fly list".
When I was at a community college, we saw people getting into hydrogen power, and they had solar powered hydrogen kits attached to small electric cars. The idea that I could take some semi affordable radioactive metal and make a laser powered super car has awakened my Mad Scientist bug.
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