atomic Prius?

We have nucular powered submarines, what about a
land vehicle? How small can you make a urannium
steam engine?

It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -

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Rich

On 9/11/2013 4:26 PM, wrote:
> We have nucular powered submarines, what about a
> land vehicle? How small can you make a urannium
> steam engine?
>
> It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -
>

Been done.
Bigger than your neighborhood, goes something over 30 knots:

http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr.../ussreagan.jpg

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Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

wrote:
> We have nucular powered submarines, what about a
> land vehicle? How small can you make a urannium
> steam engine?
>
> It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -

Plutonium pack, like on Voyager satellites.
Small, efficient. A plutonium pack in every garage.

wrote in news:b1d2fc12-1701-457e-b2d3-a0160b1e6ba1
@googlegroups.com:

> We have nucular



"Nucular"? Get thee hence to a dictionary,



--
Tegger

On 9/11/2013 12:53 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
> wrote:
>> We have nucular powered submarines, what about a land vehicle? How
>> small can you make a urannium steam engine?
>> It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -
>
> Plutonium pack, like on Voyager satellites.
> Small, efficient. A plutonium pack in every garage.

Of course, dirty bombs and cancer would become a daily fact of life but
it's a small price to pay for small and efficient. I don't think it will
do much for air quality though. :-)

On 9/11/2013 5:01 PM, A. Muzi wrote:
> On 9/11/2013 4:26 PM, wrote:
>> We have nucular powered submarines, what about a
>> land vehicle? How small can you make a urannium
>> steam engine?
>>
>> It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -
>>
>
> Been done.
> Bigger than your neighborhood, goes something over 30 knots:
>
> http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr.../ussreagan.jpg
>
Obsolete - this goes over 2,000 knots while skimming the waves.

<http://ivarfjeld.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ssn26yakhont02.jpg>

Ask the French how their heavily armored and mounted knights fared at
Agincourt, or the IDF how their Merkava tanks did in the wadis of
southern Lebanon?

--
T0m $herm@n

On 09/11/2013 05:49 PM, T0m $herman wrote:
> On 9/11/2013 5:01 PM, A. Muzi wrote:
>> On 9/11/2013 4:26 PM, wrote:
>>> We have nucular powered submarines, what about a
>>> land vehicle? How small can you make a urannium
>>> steam engine?
>>>
>>> It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -
>>>
>>
>> Been done.
>> Bigger than your neighborhood, goes something over 30 knots:
>>
>> http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr.../ussreagan.jpg
>>
> Obsolete - this goes over 2,000 knots while skimming the waves.
>
> <http://ivarfjeld.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ssn26yakhont02.jpg>
>
> Ask the French how their heavily armored and mounted knights fared at
> Agincourt,

to your prior point, the french have moved on - in terms of their naval
power at least - they have exocet. which proved somewhat effective in
the falklands war. it's been sold widely since.


> or the IDF how their Merkava tanks did in the wadis of
> southern Lebanon?
>
> --
> T0m $herm@n


--
fact check required

On 9/11/2013 8:19 PM, jim beam wrote:
> On 09/11/2013 05:49 PM, T0m $herman wrote:
>> On 9/11/2013 5:01 PM, A. Muzi wrote:
>>> On 9/11/2013 4:26 PM, wrote:
>>>> We have nucular powered submarines, what about a
>>>> land vehicle? How small can you make a urannium
>>>> steam engine?
>>>>
>>>> It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -
>>>>
>>>
>>> Been done.
>>> Bigger than your neighborhood, goes something over 30 knots:
>>>
>>> http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr.../ussreagan.jpg
>>>
>> Obsolete - this goes over 2,000 knots while skimming the waves.
>>
>> <http://ivarfjeld.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ssn26yakhont02.jpg>
>>
>> Ask the French how their heavily armored and mounted knights fared at
>> Agincourt,
>
> to your prior point, the french have moved on - in terms of their naval
> power at least - they have exocet. which proved somewhat effective in
> the falklands war. it's been sold widely since.

Exocet → Ford Pinto [1]
Yakhont → Ford GT

The Exocet is subsonic, and easily defeated by such systems as the
Raytheon Phalanx. There is no proven defense against the Yakhont,
particularly when fired in a group. Which is why if Israel (or Israel's
proxy, the US) attacks Syria or Iran [2], you will see the US Navy
leaving the Persian Gulf and heading well out into the Indian Ocean
beforehand.

[1] Today is the 43rd anniversary of the Ford Pinto.
[2] In a major assault, not the smaller attacks that have been ongoing.

--
T0m $herm@n

Paul in Houston TX > wrote:
wrote:
>> We have nucular powered submarines, what about a
>> land vehicle? How small can you make a urannium
>> steam engine?
>>
>> It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -
>
>Plutonium pack, like on Voyager satellites.
>Small, efficient. A plutonium pack in every garage.

Thermoelectric packs are very good for giving a small amount of current for
a long time period. When I was a kid, the Westinghouse Home of the Future
had one in the backyard, and the Soviets used a lot of them on buoys that
needed to stay afloat for a long time.

The problem is they aren't at all useful for an application that needs high
peak power and relatively low average power. That's why the Ford Nucleon
was going to use twin turbines, connected to generators, more or less like
a nuclear version of the Prius.

I believe there is a Wikipedia entry for the Nucleon.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:15:31 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Paul in Houston TX > wrote:
>
> wrote:
>
> >> We have nucular powered submarines, what about a
>
> >> land vehicle? How small can you make a urannium
>
> >> steam engine?
>
> >>
>
> >> It strikes me as the ultimate carbon emission reducer -
>
> >
>
> >Plutonium pack, like on Voyager satellites.
>
> >Small, efficient. A plutonium pack in every garage.
>
>
>
> Thermoelectric packs are very good for giving a small amount of current for
>
> a long time period. When I was a kid, the Westinghouse Home of the Future
>
> had one in the backyard, and the Soviets used a lot of them on buoys that
>
> needed to stay afloat for a long time.
>
>
>
> The problem is they aren't at all useful for an application that needs high
>
> peak power and relatively low average power. That's why the Ford Nucleon
>
> was going to use twin turbines, connected to generators, more or less like
>
> a nuclear version of the Prius.
>
>
>
> I believe there is a Wikipedia entry for the Nucleon.
>
> --scott
>
>
>
> --
>
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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