Thorium-Fueled Automobile Engine Needs Refueling Once a Century

"The company has been experimenting with small bits of thorium, creating a laser that heats water, produces steam and powers a mini turbine." This is the only line in the article about how it works and it doesn't make any sense. It certainly isn't a nuclear reactor. If they meant that thorium is used in the laser, what powers the laser?

The company website (http://www.laserpowersystems.com) certainly doesn't add any credibility.

I'm getting a bit tired of all the Thorium link-bait about that car. As far as I can tell, there's no working prototype, no working engine, nothing. Just some hope that this may some day be possible. So why does everybody keep repeating this non-news?

I love Thorium as much as the next geek, but give me some results, rather than repeating the same baseless speculation over and over.