Nuclear

[jerry1423]

If I was younger and contemplating what career direction to take I would consider nuclear engineering.
After the windmills are built and the solar panels are installed we are going to need to build something to supply us with constant energy.
Since very few people of this generation entered this field there will be a high demand for them in the coming years. It may be 10 years in the future, but it will come.

 

[TheTick]

There needs to be a heat sink of some sort. Air-cooling could do it, but it's not nearly as efficient.

Ships are ideal for nuclear power becuase they can be built large enough to accomodate massive power plants. I suppose a nuclear train isn't too far-fetched.

 

[KENAT]

http://web.archive.org/web/20060302180919/http://www.radiationworks.com/flyingreactor.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_aircraft

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[MortenA]

The quote (Icenine some days ago) - its E. F. Schumacher - a German economist. Google is amazing - just feed the whole quote (incl the "") and bang1

Best regards

Morten

 

[owg]

Any further discussion on nuclear plants' ability to follow load? The comment on the long time constant for European house heating was very interesting. However I am still trying to figure out how those "gas turbans" work that Cranky108 mentioned.

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[cranky108]

owg, you should be fimular with jet engine, which is basically the same thing. We tie it down add extra blades on the power end, and use the rotating shaft to turn a generator. (By we I mean we purchase to whole assimbly that way. We don't build them).
The problem is they don't work with solid fuels.

 

[KENAT]

cranky, so are you saying the traditional middle eastern/eastern head gear are actually power sources.

Interesting.

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[cranky108]

So I can't spell.

 

[KENAT]

Nor can I, but in these bleak times it's nice to find some humor, I don't think it was meant as a dig, just comic relief.

The idea of jet propeled head gear made me chuckle.

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[owg]

Sorry, I should have added a

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[imcjoek]

I hear the Russians may be developing a ushanka scram jet. Will this arms race never end?

 

[cranky108]

The arms race dosen't appear to be ending, just the players increasing in numbers. So we have to be prepaired for the next threat.

What ever happened to atomic batteries, and what radioactive elements can they be made from?