Turtle...sure "Ford spend 10's of millions of dollars with their atomic car idea. FAIL!" Duh. You're carring an Atomic energy plant in your car. I don't know who even came up with such a du.A. idea to begin with, I guess they didn't know much about how lethal nuclear energy is and didn't figure "Safety" into the equation.
AS for the Chevy Turbine due to its construction, the engines did not require antifreeze, a cooling system, a radiator, bearings, connecting rods, or crankshafts. The turbine engine could operate on diesel fuel, unleaded gasoline, kerosene, and JP-4 jet fuel. According to Chrysler, it could burn a bunch of unusual fuels like furnace oil, perfume, peanut and soybean oils. Had they let this car "take off" Many people would have been out of jobs, Contractors would have lost their contracts, the oil industry would have taken a major hit. Special interest groups, Politics.
We've been tinkering on the Gasoline Engine for over a 100 yrs and have nearly perfected it. Imagine "tinkering" on the turbine engine for at least 50-60 yrs. There's no telling where we would be. Gasoline engines would have been a thing of the past. But Big oil wasn't gonna let that happen.
