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Article #884Re: Power supply for robots
From: Nico Garcia
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:48
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:48
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In article <lfivfuINN77k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis@pepper.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: > NNTP-Posting-Host: pepper > I don't believe this is true. Certainly some of the latest Russian > satellite reactors 1 - 10Kw, no refueling are efficent enough to power > a car and their radiation emissions are well below those considered > harmful. The reactors were designed to power the latest version of 100 or 200 miles up in orbit, sure. Strapped into an engine at your feet, with enough power output to drive a car from 0-60 in reasonable time? Which car may get smashed into another similarly loaded car headlong at 80 mph apiece? Gas spills are bad enough: nuclear spills at every rotary in Boston? B-r-r-r. -- Nico Garcia CIRL/MEEI eddie.mit.edu!eplunix!raoul
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!eplunix!raoul From: raoul@eplunix.UUCP (Nico Garcia) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Power supply for robots Message-ID: <1301@eplunix.UUCP> Date: 6 Nov 92 16:48:25 GMT References: <lfivfuINN77k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: Eaton-Peabody Lab, Boston, MA Lines: 21