Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Ben Crowell wrote:
>> James Nicoll wrote:
>>> How many uses can you think of for a multiple gigwatt generator
>>> that has no waste heat or radiation issues, that is smaller than a
>>> block of butter?
>>
>> Is it a heat engine? If so, then my proposed use for it would be to
>> use it to obtain the Nobel prize for overthrowing the laws of
>> thermodynamics.
>
> The impression I got from the movie was that it was nuclear in some
> way, nothing physics-breaking. The details don't really matter,
> though.
The mention of palladium while building the prototype suggests cold
fusion,
without saying it. So, for values of "nothing physics-breaking" that
include stuff that's used as the punch line at the water cooler among real
phycists.
But then, it *is* a comic book.
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