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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!eplunix!raoul
- From: raoul@eplunix.UUCP (Nico Garcia)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Power supply for robots
- Message-ID: <1301@eplunix.UUCP>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:48:25 GMT
- References: <lfivfuINN77k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Organization: Eaton-Peabody Lab, Boston, MA
- Lines: 21
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- In article <lfivfuINN77k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>,
- cmcmanis@pepper.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
- > NNTP-Posting-Host: pepper
- > I don't believe this is true. Certainly some of the latest Russian
- > satellite reactors 1 - 10Kw, no refueling are efficent enough to power
- > a car and their radiation emissions are well below those considered
- > harmful. The reactors were designed to power the latest version of
-
- 100 or 200 miles up in orbit, sure. Strapped into an engine at your
- feet, with enough power output to drive a car from 0-60 in reasonable
- time? Which car may get smashed into another similarly loaded car
- headlong at 80 mph apiece?
-
- Gas spills are bad enough: nuclear spills at every rotary in Boston?
- B-r-r-r.
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- Nico Garcia
- CIRL/MEEI
- eddie.mit.edu!eplunix!raoul
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