Topic: New reactor type puts out 50 or more times what is put in (Read 2894 times)

Stormbringer · « **Reply #20 on:** April 12, 2004, 12:33:09 pm »

I personally like the journal paper link you posted in the H&S forum better but these are good too. I remember (thanks to your links0 when this discovery was actually made in the 90's. I had forgotten about it and then it appeared to be a long way off. now they have hardware that is about to fly (the UAV.)

Stormbringer · « **Reply #21 on:** April 12, 2004, 12:34:45 pm »

Renegade's link in the H&S thread is a peer reviewed paper on the process behind the article.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #22 on:** April 12, 2004, 02:13:11 pm »

This comparison in your quoted text skips fission reactions. But since it is approaching the low end of fusion reactions I think I can assume that it is equivelant of a high end fission process. Think about it an ion drive powered by a fission reactor. Zoooom!

Stormbringer · « **Reply #23 on:** April 12, 2004, 02:19:13 pm »

Since it really is just a super dense battery it will need a charger. How about big solar collector satellites equipped with giant terminals for a nucleon powered ship to plug into; or such satellites with laser/maser beams to relay power to a nucleon ship out in the outskirts of the solar system?

Magnum357 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 12, 2004, 06:35:58 pm »

"Isomer Nucleonic - 800,000,000 Wh/Kg"

Holy Crap guys! If the Battery is small enough, it could easily give you enough power too run cars with. But I bet the technology is probably way too bulky for that. But this could really be handy for long range space exploration ships/probes. I hope NASA and other pursue this technology. It has a lot of benefits.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #25 on:** April 13, 2004, 04:40:47 pm »

No it can't be too bulky for that. [ after all it will be powering a global hawk type UAV in a few months ] But it is too expensive -unless they replace the hafnium with another nucleonic material. Hafnium is pretty rare.

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