In 1965, Soviet scientists tested the car "Volga Atom" with an atomic engine of 320 horsepower (very much for that time). The engine weighed 500 kilograms, so the front was not 2 wheels, but 4. Such a car could be very long without refueling.
The tests showed that the Volga atom travels 60 thousand kilometers without refueling. It turned out that after that the engine needed to be replaced with a new one. But Soviet scientists corrected this problem, they created an engine with gas-phase fuel in the form of uranium...
hexafluoride instead of solid uranium, and the new version of the car could go 40 thousand kilometers without refuelling. To refuel it was now sufficient to pump a new supply of uranium hexafluoride into the cylinders and the car would keep going.
When Khrushchev retired, the cars were dismantled and research in this field ceased.
Toyota will only produce 800,000 cars in October because of a chip shortage
Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday it plans to produce about 800,000 vehicles worldwide in October, about 100,000 less than its average monthly production plan because of a shortage of semiconductors.
The world's largest automaker by sales volume said last month that it planned to produce about 900,000 cars a month from September through November.
Now it expects to produce an average of about 850,000 cars a month from October through December due to supply chain problems, the company said.
Still, Toyota is sticking to its goal of producing 9.7 million vehicles worldwide for the current fiscal year through March 2023.
Before the political parties conducted their primaries, a journalist asked what is my view about the 2023 general election?
A thread.
I answered and said the country should be restructured before the general election, and he followed up by asking if there should be an election, which zone should the Presidency come from? And I unhesitatingly said, of course, the South East.
After the primaries and the candidates emerge with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from the South West, APC, Atiku Abubakar on the platform of PDP and Peter Obi on the platform of Labour Party and I announced Afenifere’s support for Peter Obi, not a few Yoruba leaders question why I should..
JPMorgan: China's metaverse economy could reach $4 trillion
The metaverse will have "profound implications" for China and will greatly impact gaming, advertising and e-commerce, according to a JPMorgan research report.
The digital world will offer an improved user experience across various Internet business models. According to the bank's bullish scenario, the metaverse could triple the size of China's online gaming market to $131 billion from $44 billion.
The bank estimates the total addressable market (TAM) of the metaverse in China will be $4 trillion due to the virtualization of many goods and services.
According to the bank, the development of the metaverse will also have a significant impact on the entire ecosystem...
This gruesome incident happened in 1985 in England. Colin Kemp, 33, went to bed with his wife, after which he had a nightmare. He was in the jungle, being chased by two Japanese soldiers. One had a knife and the other had a gun.
When the man was caught up, a fight broke out: one of the soldiers jumped him, Kemp grabbed him by the throat with both hands and began strangling him. At the same time, a second soldier shot Kemp, and the man woke up in a cold sweat.
To his surprise, he found his wife showing no signs of life. Kemp tried to wake her up and suddenly realized he had strangled her in her sleep.
The court found the man not guilty, explaining what happened by the term "night terror. In this state, a person who has a nightmare is..
New York, Tokyo and San Francisco are the places where the most millionaires live, according to a new report by Henley & Partners Group.
Half of the 10 cities with the most millionaires are in the United States.
But a closer look reveals that New York City lost 12% of its wealthy in the first half of 2022, while the San Francisco area saw a 4% increase. London, which ranks fourth, saw a 9% decline. The report defines millionaires as people with investable assets of $1 million or more.
Abu Dhabi and Dubai are also among the cities with the fastest-growing number of millionaires. The emigration of wealthy Russians has also contributed to the UAE's record influx.