Duke Leto
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Duke Leto
ParticipantWell…
Why not just stick a FF reactor on the back of a half track with a few charge cable attached and have it follow the earth movers?
ParticipantNice hammer!
ParticipantThat was sarcasm, my dear Eric.
I am but incompetent with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, when the Physics is Newtonian, I know a hawk from a henshaw.
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ParticipantI’m fomenting an insane scheme to rapidly acquire all the investment capital myself and buy LPP, and then whip poor old Eric like Groves did to Oppenheimer. Only without the subsequent blacklisting.
ParticipantHere’s a vicious and cynical line of thinking:
1) Oil wells become depleted because the energy required to get the oil out of the ground costs more then the energy yielded by the oil as fuel.
2) All oil wells are not tapped completely dry, there is almost always some deposit that can’t be sucked up economically.
3) A focus fusion reactor onsite vastly changes the cost of energy needed to extract the oil from the depleted wells.
4) There are tons and tons of depleted wells across the US.
5) If focus fusion works, why not use it to up US oil productivity to prevent a peak oil economic crash while EESTOR or some other electric car tech is implemented?ParticipantStupid, weak, puny gamma.
It’s amazing you can even obliterate cities with that pissant radiation.
ParticipantOK, I’ve looked things over, and I think that the bleaker projection on the idea may be correct.
First, most modern subterranean mining uses a technique called the “longwall”, where a large extraction mechanism processes a coal seam in its entirety while supports are held over it. As the material is extracted, the supports are advanced and the material is allowed to fill the now vacant space.
Ergo, no tunnels.
So it would only be OLD mines that would be useful, and therefore the least stable.. And then again there would be the startup expense of sealing, which would need to be a double sealant using one layer a to a cover the rock, some kind of intermediary liquid with sensors to find disturbances in said liquid from ruptures, and an outer layer. And then in aquaculture added supports would be needed to take care of the dangers of subsidance caused by the weight of the water.
All very expensive…
ParticipantThe basic concern was making sure that the coal mining communities don’t have to go through a nasty transition into ghost towns.
ParticipantWhat, and Porn is now an accurate representation of sex?
Seriously though I’m quite alive to the faults in the entire concept, but what really irritates me is the incredible sloppiness of the editing interfaceand the storage and searching systems.
ParticipantJust have to get our intellectual porn from Wikipedia then.
ParticipantBut I like intellectual masturbation!
It can be so hard to get some decent intellectual intercourse going these days.
ParticipantIt’s all intellectual masturbation until there’s a prototype.
ParticipantComplete nitpick, but these puppies are Gamma Rays and not X-Rays according to the strict definition. I know the wavelength rages overlap, but X-Rays are from chemical radioactive decay and Gammas for full on fusion and fission, right?
ParticipantWorrisomely enough, if you Google “x-ray photovoltaics”, you get an article from 1979 about some Lithium compound at the top, and then this thread on page 3.
ParticipantHas there ever been any reason to make one transmute?
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