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What will the cars of the future be powered by?
Hydrogen? Battery? Natural gas? Bio-fuels? Rubber bands? Or Thorium? Very few people have heard of Thorium or how it could be used to power transportation systems. As well as larger electic power generation systems, all of which are emissions free, produce no green house gas. Laser Power Systems is the only company in the world that is developing a system the can replace the internal combustion engine, that is safe, clean, and cheap to build. One of the best feathers of this technology is that it does not require building or rebuilding any infrastructure to make it practical to implement. |
A laser is an electronic-optical device that emits coherent light radiation. The term "laser" is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Laser Power Systems, LLC is working on technology to replace internal combustion engines in all applications. This technology uses no fossil fuel is totally green, safe, easy to manufacture, cheap to operate and maintain. Interested parties may call for more information 508-347-9235 or see: www.504investor.com
This generator system uses no GAS OR OIL is totally emissions FREE! As China and India increase their energy use exponentially, the U.S. is revisiting an old, often overlooked source of power: thorium. Get in the thorium play now because it's all headed up from here.
Nuclear energy produces no greenhouse gases, but it has many drawbacks. Now a radical new technology based on thorium promises what uranium never delivered: abundant, safe and clean energy - and a way to burn up old radioactive waste.THE CAR COMPANY THAT USES THIS TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD A CAR WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE THE WORLDS FIRST ULTRA LONG RANGE ALL ELECTRIC, LOW COST, EMISSION FREE CAR. The systems starts with the Laser Power Systems Phoenix T2000 Ultra High out put MaxFelaser a Hybrid Solid state Free Electron laser design that can producing up to 2000 watts more than enough to Flash water to high pressure steam driving a Tesla type turbine and high speed light weight generator Under development for U.S. Air Force, Generation systems range in size from 2.5 MegaWatt to 5 Kw and a 125 kW / 200 kW, 62,000 RPM generator using low cost induction technology to provide a compact, efficient generator system for stable and safe operation being developed for transportation applications.The laser power systems have an operational time to burn out, of about 5,000 hours at full power out put before they need to be replaced. Giving a car the range of 5000hX60MPH thats right 300,000 miles of driving before fuel cell replacement, which will be in the range of $750 to $1,000 dollars. These generators operate in high temperature environments and provide engine start function as well. High temperature insulation schemes are also being developed This technology is ready to be adapted for use in cars, truck and other vehicles complete systems will weight less than 350 lbs. the 200 Kw unit equals 250 HP and larger units can easily be built. Power to the wheels would be provided by a High Torque Density Traction Motor also Developed under contract from the U.S. Army TACOM, the motor is of a pancake type design with water-cooled stators. Compact electric motors and motor drives based on permanent magnet, brushless motor technologies provide high efficiency and compact size.The controller design is based on field orientation and hystertic switching for fast response to transient load changes. The software based control system is flexible and optimizes the generator performance. Electric start function is available. . Compact power electronic controller design is based on hysteretic switching of input current. Water cooled power IGBTs have control signals transmitted via fiber optic cables to prevent adverse effects of electrical interference. Brassboard assembly and tests with partial loads have already been completed. Global Warming The chilling facts are that global warming is no longer what nations and individuals should be concerned about! With the price of oil at $150.00 a`barrel the global economy is headed for a major recession. If the price goesmuch higher (which it will) many Americans will not be able to afford to drive to`work, and trips for pleasure will be out of the question. |
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Introduction to Thorium the fuel of the future.This is intended to be a location for discussion and education about the value of thorium as a future energy source. Despite the fact that our world is desperately searching for new sources of energy, the value of thorium is not well-understood, even in the "nuclear engineering" community.
The fundamental basis for considering nuclear energy over chemical energy is the binding energy released in each case. Chemical energy is released when the electron configuration of atoms is rearranged through a chemical process (combustion, digestion, etc.) Electrons are bound to nuclei with binding energies measured in electron volts (eV).
The protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus, on the other hand, are bound with energies measured in millions of electron volts (MeV). Thus, rearranging the nucleus of an atom (through fusion or fission) releases roughly a million times more energy than chemical energy release.
There are four basic nuclear "fuels" found in nature: deuterium, lithium, thorium, and uranium. Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen that is found wherever hydrogen is found (such as water). Lithium is a light metal found in lake evaporates. In a traditional fusion reactor, lithium is converted to tritium (another hydrogen isotope) and then fused with deuterium, releasing energy and additional neutrons. But fusion is fundamentally difficult because positively charged particles tend to repel each other strongly, and only extraordinary temperatures, magnetic confinement, and complicated engineering can coax them to fuse. Despite all this effort, the goal of economical fusion energy is distant and perhaps unreachable, even if the physics can be conquered.
Fission of uranium or thorium, on the other hand, is much easier because neutrons are used to induce destabilization and splitting of the nucleus. The neutron is uncharged, so there is no magnetic repulsion to contend with in the fission process. No magnetic confinement or vacuum chambers are required either. The downside of fission is the generation of unstable, neutron-rich fission products that seek stability through successive beta decay.
Fission of natural uranium requires the construction of reactors that maintain high neutron energies (fast-spectrum reactors) throughout their operation. This is because the fission of plutonium-239 (the result of neutron absorption in uranium-238, the dominant isotope) does not produce enough neutrons to sustain the process unless it is bombarded by high-energy neutrons.
Fission of natural thorium, on the other hand, is much easier because its absorption product (uranium-233) produces enough neutrons from collision with a slowed-down (thermal) neutron to sustain the fission reaction, given that the reactor is designed to be frugal with its neutrons. This feature, and the abundance of thorium worldwide, give thorium a profound advantage over the other nuclear fuels for sustained energy generation.
Thorium is abundant in the Earth's crust and widespread across the United States and around the world: The major distinguishing factors between thorium and fusion are feasibility and power density.
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A free electron laser, or FEL, generates tunable, coherent, high power radiation, currently ranging in wavelength from millimeters to the visible. While an FEL laser beam shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as coherent radiation, the operation of an FEL is quite different. Unlike gas or diode lasers which rely on bound atomic or molecular states, FELs use a relativistic electron beam as the lasing medium, hence the term free-electron. Free electron lasers can be used to generate terahertz radiation. The Tesla turbine is a bladeless turbine design patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. The Tesla turbine is also known as the boundary layer turbine, cohesion-type turbine, and Prandtl layer turbine (after Ludwig Prandtl). One of Tesla’s desires for implementation of this turbine was for geothermal power, which was described in "Our Future Motive Power". [1] A Tesla turbine consists of a set of smooth disks, with nozzles applying a moving gas to the edge of the disk. The gases drag on the disk by means of viscosity and the adhesion of the surface layer of the gas. As the gas slows and adds energy to the disks, it spirals in to the center exhaust. Since the rotor has no projections, it is very sturdy. Tesla wrote 'This turbine is an efficient self-starting prime mover which may be operated as a steam or mixed fluid turbine at will, without changes in construction and is on this account very convenient. Minor departures from the turbine, as may be dictated by the circumstances in each case, will obviously suggest themselves but if it is carried out on these general lines it will be found highly profitable to the owners of the steam plant while permitting the use of their old installation. However, the best economic results in the development of power from steam by the Tesla turbine will be obtained in plants especially adapted for the purpose. ' This turbine can also be successfully applied to condensing plants operating with high vacuum. In such a case, owing to the very great expansion ratio, the exhaust mixture will be at a relatively low temperature and suitable for admission to the condenser. Better fuel has to be used and special pumping facilities provided but the economic results attained will fully justify the increased outlay. All the plates and washers are fitted on and keyed to a sleeve threaded at the ends and equipped with nuts and collars for drawing the thick end-plates together or, if desired, the collars may by simply forced onto it and the ends upset. The sleeve has a hole fitting snugly on the shaft and is fastened to the same as usual. This construction permits free expansion and contraction of each plate individually under the varying influence of heat and centrifugal force and possesses a number of other advantages which are of considerable practical moment. A larger active plate area and consequently more power is obtained for a given width, improving efficiency. Warping is virtually eliminated and smaller side clearances may be used which results in diminished leakage and friction losses. The rotor is better adapted for dynamic balancing and through rubbing friction resists disturbing influences thereby ensuring quieter running. For this reason and also because the discs are not rigidly joined it is protected against damage which might otherwise be caused by vibration or excessive speed. The Tesla turbine has the trait of being in an installation normally working with a mixture of steam and products of combustion and in which the exhaust heat is used to provide steam which is supplied to the turbine, providing a valve governing the supply of such last mentioned steam so that the pressures and temperatures can be adjusted to the optimum working conditions. A Tesla turbine installation as diagrammed is: - Able to start with steam alone.
- A disc type adapted to work with fluids at high temperature.
An efficient Tesla turbine requires close spacing of the disks. For example, a steam-powered type must maintain 0.4 millimeter inter-disk spacing. The disks must be maximally smooth to minimize surface and shear losses. Disks must also be maximally thin to prevent drag and turbulence at disk edges. Unfortunately, preventing disks from warping and distorting was a major challenge in Tesla's time. It is thought that this inability to prevent the disks distorting contributed to the commercial failure of the turbines, because metallurgical technology at the time was not able to produce disks of sufficient quality and rigidity. |
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Megawatt Class Generator High power density 15,000 RPM generators for 1 MW to 2.5 MW power rating are ready to go into production and are being tested by the US Air Force Research Laboratory. 
