how long till we can go nano with nuclaer

[anglepose]

how lon will it be before we can minaturise a nuclaer core for pherhaps use in cars and puplic transport

[Buffy]

The nuclear power plants put into spacecraft like Galileo are roughly basketball sized, and put out quite a bit of juice. The problem is what happens when you get run over by a big rig and plutonium--which is deadly in amounts smaller than you can even see--gets splattered all over the turnpike....

Unforseen consequences,
Buffy

[InfiniteNow]

well said.

[alexander]

FYI there have been attempts at making nuclear engines for cars and as backup generators for large buildings, the problem is that little thing called radiation which seems to excape nuclear reactor cores and needs to get propperly shielded and stuff so that you such devices can operate harmlessly in any environment and yet be small and light enough to be somewhat conventional. anyways, nuclear cars is a bad way out, what really needs to get done is the efficiency of utilising hydrogen needs to be broaght up together with safety of handling and storing, this way you have a reliable source of energy for a long time that emits at most such miniscule amounts of radiation that it wont even rival the naturaly occuring radiation all around us...

[GAHD]

mean while, splitting hydrogen from water for fuel, frees up oxygen for us! yay!.
It'll still be too bad about the rainforests, but atleast we'll have oxy.

[orbsycli]

We'll have cotton, too.

[hallenrm]

Originally Posted by anglepose

how lon will it be before we can minaturise a nuclaer core for pherhaps use in cars and puplic transport

Long enough, till we can travel between the galaxies,

Long enough till the stroms of time wipe out all traces of each one of us!!

[alexander]

Originally Posted by hallenrm

Long enough till the stroms of time wipe out all traces of each one of us

not if i find a way to hack time

[hallenrm]

Originally Posted by alexander

not if i find a way to hack time

But, to do so also you will need time, perhaps more

[orbsycli]

Originally Posted by alexander

not if i find a way to hack time

The closest thing to hacking time that I can think of
is simulating perceiving time in different manners, speeds, et cetera. (!!!!)

Some humans interact with some plants on some planet and they think about Time,
and then they think about how all of a sudden one minute felt like a few hours,
and how the whole entire day went by in the blink of an eye,

and then they'll giggle and tell you they can't see the clock