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- From: roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Propulsion questions
- Message-ID: <9207230132.AA03511@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 01:32:11 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
- formerly National Bureau of Standards
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- -From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- -Subject: Re: Propulsion questions
- -Date: 20 Jul 92 19:39:55 GMT
- -Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- -> (if you have only a microgram of protons in your one-metre bottle, the
- -> potential energy is as high as the mass energy).
- ->
- -> Nick Haines nickh@cs.cmu.edu
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- -Is this then a means of storing energy at higher densities than merely having
- -it as mass? (Anti protons, heck, we'll just stuff a pound of electrons into a
- -soda straw. Point it away from the direction you want to go, and snip off the
- -end...)
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- The mass of the bottle + contents goes up by the mass-equivalent of the
- energy it took to force the contents into the bottle.
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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