Re: Power supply for robots

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From: P. Douglas Reeder
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 00:59

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In article <Bx4o8E.Ax4@alsvid.une.edu.au> rbyrnes@alsvid.une.edu.au (Rod Byrnes) writes:
:Any other ideas are also eagerly accepted. One reply mentioned in a humorous
:fashion the use of a nuclear reactor. I guess this is a totally ridiculous
:line of approach, but to be honest, I don't really know what the state of the
:art in nuclear power involves. 

Nuclear power is a good choice for power in space.  According to the
summary of the CMU Ambler project in the space-tech mailing list
archive, the design goal is a robot that can "opearate on about 300
watts of continuous power, supplied by a Radioisotope Thermal
Generator (RTG)."  For terrestrial uses, I doubt nuclear is a viable
choice, for the same reasons we don't have nuclear powered cars.

Doug Reeder                                 USENET: ...!tektronix!reed!reeder
Internet: reeder@reed.EDU                   BITNET: reeder@reed.BITNET

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From: reeder@reed.edu (P. Douglas Reeder)
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Subject: Re: Power supply for robots
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