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Article #8792Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications?
From: Jonathan Leech
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 02:41
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 02:41
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In article <7739@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:
>measured in the hundreds of thousands of tons, if not millions. Of course,
>since the object of the mission is to get asteriod ores (not fuel, by the way),
>the fuel for the return trip must be carried on board, and this fuel must be
>sufficient to accelerate and decelerate the loaded ship.
Probably not, since we suspect many asteroids of being
volatile-rich. Fuel and reaction mass, all in one. I was unable to
find any information on D/H ratios in a quick glance through my copy
of _Asteroids_, but the Phobos mission may provide info in short
order, if their mass spectrometer determines D abundance.
This is aside from there being no need to accelerate at 1G in
either direction for other reasons.
--
Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/
"Totally bounded: A set that can be patrolled by a finite number
of arbitrarily near-sighted policemen." A. Wilonsky, 1978
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!thorin!zeta!leech From: leech@zeta.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications? Message-ID: <7452@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 28 Mar 89 02:41:12 GMT References: <290@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <1098@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <296@v7fs1.UUCP> <5849@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> <1989Mar26.003753.11770@utzoo.uucp> <5853@pdn.paradyne.com> <24998@amdcad.AMD.COM> <7739@pyr.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: leech@zeta.UUCP (Jonathan Leech) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 18