Nuclear-Powered Car and Other Dead Ends in Futuristic Auto Design
Image: Media.Ford What looks like a spare tire at the back of the 1958 Ford Nucleon is really a small atomic reactor. In the late 50′s, a personal-use nuclear power plant, with scaled down reactors and shielding, seemed within grasp. Engineers estimated a range of 5000 miles before refueling. The one-piece, pillarless windshield adds to the futuristic style of the 3/8 scale study. With perfect hindsight, we see that the Ford Nucleon was not just a few years from an assembly line, but would remain a footnote in history, alongside … Read the full story on TreeHugger
More here:
Nuclear-Powered Car and Other Dead Ends in Futuristic Auto Design
Posted by
on February 16, 2011. Filed under
Lifestyle,
News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the
RSS 2.0.
You can leave a response or trackback to this entry