Green Options » mr http://greenoptions.com/tag/mr Posts tagged 'mr' Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:28:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Build Your Own “Mr. Fusion” and Power Your Car With Trash. Now, Where Did I Put That Flux Capacitor? http://gas2.org/2009/01/08/build-your-own-mr-fusion-and-power-your-car-with-trash/ http://gas2.org/2009/01/08/build-your-own-mr-fusion-and-power-your-car-with-trash/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:28:12 +0000 Jo Borras http://gas2.org/2009/01/08/build-your-own-mr-fusion-and-power-your-car-with-trash/ If you spent any time as a child in the 80’s, you probably spent a more than a few afternoons longing for your own flying DeLorean, hover-board, and Marty McFly Nikes.

Unfortunately, you still can’t have any of those things (although the Nikes did appear on eBay, briefly, and sold for $1300 US), but maybe you can have something better:  a real, honest-to-goodness Mr. Fusion!

The “Mr. Fusion” reactor mounted to the back of Back to the Future’s famous DeLorean hovercar produced the car’s fuel by extracting chemical energy from common household garbage.  While the 1985 movie version of Mr. Fusion put out enough power to juice the good Doctor Brown’s flux capacitor all the way to the year 2015, the 2008 version will probably only get a few miles down the road.

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