Re: Having seen Iron Man

Allen Thomson <thomsona@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 11, 11:47 am, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > you could run a car with it

> The drive chain would have to be pretty beefy: "multiple gigawatts" is
> multiple millions of horsepower.

   Drive chain?  Who needs drive chains?  This thing powers a flying
armored
suit.  Even if we don't have Stark's repulsors for propulsion, we can
easily
power a flying car with this reactor.

   But I think the biggest use will be in making the power grid obsolete.
Every home and vehicle could be self-sufficient.  We could colonize
Antarctica and Greenland with domed cities.  If global warming starts to
be
a problem, hook the reactor up to carbon capture devices and drop one
every
square mile throughout Siberia.  We can re-terraform Earth.  

   How many of these things, hooked up to simple (but powerful) space
heaters
would be needed to raise Mars to a comfortable temperature?  I'd drop a 
million of them on the planet and see what happens.

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