Debunk some pseudoscience!

[JebKeb]

So. Find some pseudoscience. Dissect the author's arguments.

Example: This car runs for 100 years without refuelling - The Thorium Car Yes, I know, it's been ripped to shreds, but it's an example.

Note: I like thorium. I think it's a good alternative, but this stuff is obvious fake.

Firstly, carrying around a nuclear reactor in your car is a bit...dangerous. 

Run one 8 grams of fuel for 100 years, you say? The average horsepower of a car is around 200hp, or about 150 kW. Over 100 years of 1 hour trips per day, around 150*1*365*100 = 5.5GW of energy required. Now they're using a turbine, which is about 80% efficient, requiring about 7gW of heat from steam. And they're heating the steam with damn LASERS, which only have around 40% efficiency, meaning we need a total of 17GW of heat from the thorium. And this is assuming a magical heat-to-laser device!

In a breeder thorium produces about 80tJ, or around 22kWh, per kg. Even without doing any maths the 8 grams claim is bogus. To go on a 1-hour trip you would need about 7kg of thorium, worth around $560. To run the system for 100 years, you would need nearly 800 tonnes of thorium, worth $64 million. 8 grams would only get you around 4 seconds of full power.

Petrol has an energy density of 46mJ per kg. Their claims about how much energy there is in it compared to petrol is even fake.

So, what junk have you found on teh interwebz?