Sure you didn't. That's why you told us how many patents were in place. The
car story is a total fiction and you tried to convince us it is an important
development, the way of the future.
Here's more from the article: (Note the Cadillac's name at the end!)
Loren Kulesus, a designer of super cool skateboards and guitars, drew up the
design for the “World Thorium Fuel” concept car, which looks super cool like
the rest of his work.
And to go with it, he said it would be really neato if the car lasted 100 years,
you know, because it’s the 100th anniversary. So he put together a bunch
of technobabble words like “thorium” and “laser” in the write-up.
That’s it. He just made it up. And it’s not like anyone hid this fact, and tried
to pretend it was real or anything. It was clear right from the start this was
just an art project.
Consider the acronym. That’s the Cadillac WTF.
I personally did not say how many patents it had, it was cut and pasted from the link I provided that said a possible future as in boats that have nuclear powered engines are existing today.
Nuclear-Powered Ships
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Non-Power-Nuclear-Applications/Transport/Nuclear-Powered-Ships/
(Updated October 2015)
•Nuclear power is particularly suitable for vessels which need to be at sea for long periods without refueling, or for powerful submarine propulsion.
•Over 140 ships are powered by more than 180 small nuclear reactors and more than 12,000 reactor years of marine operation has been accumulated.
•Most are submarines, but they range from icebreakers to aircraft carriers.
•In future, constraints on fossil fuel use in transport may bring marine nuclear propulsion into more widespread use. So far, exaggerated fears about safety have caused political restriction on port access.
Apart from naval use, where frequency of refueling is a major consideration, nuclear power seems most immediately promising for the following:
•Large bulk carriers that go back and forth constantly on few routes between dedicated ports – eg China to South America and NW Australia. They could be powered by a reactor delivering 100 MW thrust.
•Cruise liners, which have demand curves like a small town. A 70 MWe unit could give base-load and charge batteries, with a smaller diesel unit supplying the peaks. (The largest afloat today – Oasis class, with 100,000 t displacement – has about 60 MW shaft power derived from almost 100 MW total power plant.)
•Nuclear tugs, to take conventional ships across oceans
•Some kinds of bulk shipping, where speed is essential.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...e-range-nuclear-powered-cars-ships-and-planes
NS Savannah, one of the only nuclear passenger-and-cargo ships, in service between 1962 and 1972.
The 1958 Ford Nucleon concept car – the closest we’ve got to a nuclear-powered car so far. Yes, this is the car that inspired the nuclear cars in Fallout 3.
Which brings us to cars. To this day, the closest we’ve ever come to a nuclear car is the Ford Nucleon, a 1958 scale model concept car that would’ve used a nuclear reactor paired with a steam engine (much like nuclear submarines or icebreakers). At the time, there was no nuclear reactor small enough to squeeze into a car, and so it never became more than a concept. (As you can probably tell, the ’50s and ’60s — the heyday of optimistic nuclear research — were probably the last time that nuclear power wasn’t despised by the public.)
