Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!gatech!arnold From: arnold@gatech.UUCP (Fred Fortran) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: more on alternate energy sources (fusion) Message-ID: <9681@gatech.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 09:45:33 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.9681 Posted: Thu Aug 16 09:45:33 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 03:00:38 EDT Organization: Friends of the Arithmetic IF Lines: 34 I recieved the following in my mail earlier this week, and am only just now getting around to post it. He (or may be she, I don't know) makes a good point that hasn't been on the net yet (at least I haven't seen it yet...) This is the letter in its entirety, minus some irrelevant mail-header stuff. > From: dmcnh!gts@sii > Return-Path:> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 84 12:20:17 edt > Subject: Re: alternate, hopefully safe, energy sources (fusion) > References: <806@ihuxx.UUCP>, <9520@gatech.UUCP> > > I thought that liquid lithium would flow along the inside of the walls > of the fusion containment chamber. Not only does this absorb the neutrons > to prevent damage to the solid permanent walls, but in so doing, captures > the heat of the reaction and can be used as a heat transfer medium. > > Please try to get more information about this. I would post this idea > myself but I cannot post, I can only meddle (like this). Your mission, > if you decide to accept it, is to post the above idea for public ridicule. > Put the blame on: > The unposting mailbox of ><..!decvax!ittvax!sii!dmcnh!gts Well, I accepted the mission; here is the note. So it seems like maybe fusion might not be so bad. Of course, I have no idea how hard it is to get hold of enough liquid lithium. To paraphrase a famous physician of the 23rd century, "Damn it Jim, I'm a computer scientist, not a physicist!" :-) -- Arnold Robbins CSNET: arnold@gatech ARPA: arnold%gatech.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa UUCP: { akgua, allegra, hplabs, ihnp4 }!gatech!arnold Save the Arithmetic IF!