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Article #7795Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications?
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 19:48
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 19:48
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In article <17272@cisunx.UUCP> jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (James C. Benz) writes: >Well, if you are going to assume *lots* of relatively free fusion energy, >why not just accelerate at 1G or some appreciable fraction thereof, until >you are halfway there, then turn around and decelerate at the same rate? Because the power requirements are not merely high, but staggering, if the fuel consumption is to be kept sane. I did the calculation in sci.space a week or two ago; it was way up in the terawatts, as I recall, given some reasonable assumptions. Never mind generating it; merely handling that much power is a horrendous problem. 1% inefficiency means you have to dissipate gigawatts of heat. Someday; not today. -- Welcome to Mars! Your | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology passport and visa, comrade? | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.research,sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications? Message-ID: <1989Apr5.194855.4674@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <290@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <1098@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <296@v7fs1.UUCP> <5849@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> <1989Mar26.003753.11770@utzoo.uucp> <17272@cisunx.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 19:48:55 GMT