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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
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Posted: Thu Aug 16 09:45:33 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 03:00:38 EDT
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	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
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