Comments on: The Atomic Automobile https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:35:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-73559 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:35:59 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-73559 Time is passing too quickly. Someday soon, I will be gone.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-72909 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:48:27 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-72909 I’m back again.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-72857 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:46:16 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-72857 I don’t care about the radiation dangers. I have only a few years left, anyway. I want one of those cars.

]]> By: ddm https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-72229 Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:50:40 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-72229 Keep it simple. An electric/gas driven car, with a automated electric charging connection. Charges almost anywhere you park. Go a long distance the automated gas system takes over. MAJOR PROBLEM. “Big Oil” Big Oil cannot compete on nuclear submarines, but it does compete with Large Electric Power Companies, forcing them to use oil instead of nuclear energy. While small in comparison, Wind and Solar are both subsidized by you the taxpayer. Nuclear power can beat the pants off of oil power when it comes to cost. How do you fight Big Oil is the question. We failed to beat them in the fifties.

]]> By: Hans https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-72040 Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:29:38 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-72040 What if someone decided to work on ther car and it exploded in ther grage an entire town or nabor hood would be whiped out!

]]> By: ufo https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-39307 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:18:38 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-39307 Quite interesting! Another great idea from 60th. And one of the first projects where people thought about the alternative power sources. The truth is that the mankind still has no good power source which is safe,cheap, compact, independent (at least relatively) and powerful at the same time. Atomic energy could be a perfect replacement for all these anachronistic things we currently use. But there’s one issue – it’s quite dangerous and nobody knows how to utilize the radioactive waste. However, even nowadays the atomic power is used with the great success. I mean the applications where the problems spoken above are not too important. To wit, the automatic spacecrafts. As the greatest example we can remember Voyagers. Powered by RTGs they are still workable even after 30+ years in space.

P.S.: Sorry for possible mistakes, english is not my native language.

]]> By: Mark https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-38439 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:21:57 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-38439 Still possible if the two missing ingredients are discovered – shielding and small reactors. Not out of the question. I believe the mars rover is nuclear.

http://www.about-robots.com/curiosity-rover-nuclear-battery.html

5 kg of Pu-238 and lasts 14 years

]]> By: Alberto R. https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-38349 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:45:56 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-38349 I’d prefer an aneutronic fusion car, please. Don’t like steam and turbines, are so last century…
Thank you.

]]> By: Rodger Wrighthead https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-25239 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:05:40 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-25239 Fallout 3-esque.

]]> By: Zardoz-51 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-atomic-automobile/#comment-24628 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:40:10 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656#comment-24628 No Comment, At This Time.

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