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| [Technology, RFC] Roughrider's Cool Cuke Reactors |
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Posted by: Black Aeronaut - 01-24-2010, 03:46 PM - Forum: Fenspace
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robkelk Wrote:Quote:How
would I compete against antimatter reactors using nuclear reactions?
Hrm...
Don't be there when it goes off.
Luckily for you, this is something that the Midnight is good
at... This got me going on this train of thought. Bear with me here...
The engines do just fine. The design is absolutely wonderful when it comes to getting maximum bang for the buck , thus making them nearly peerless in the field of propulsion technologies. The issue that I've got my mind on is energy throughput of the reactors. A normal fission reaction can't hold a candle (literally!) to an anti-matter reaction. Therefore, it stands to reason that Fenspace!Ben would have to come up with a new sort of nuclear fission - either something radically different and probably highly dangerous... or a wholly different method of capturing the energy (some means of direct-energy conversion perhaps).
I'm opting for the former as it would fit in with well within the Handwavium's abilities. I also wouldn't put it past the 'Wave to make the reaction process more efficient.
*Thinks for a moment, adopting the pose of The Problem...*
Here we go. A reactor that utilizes direct conversion of radiation bombardment and thermal energy into usable electricity (or electro-plasma for the Trekkies out there). Additionally, the fuel comes in the form of traditional fuel rods... but with a twist. The fuel is progressively expended, turning to completely inert components as it passes through the reactor, much like burning a candle. There is not radioactive waste whatsoever and the remnants can be easily reprocessed into useful materials like DU ammunition (with the added benefit of being totally inert - no more worries of radiation poisening from ammo handling).
The name? Cool Cuke Reactor. The housing, due to it's thermal conversion, is cool to the touch even when running above red-line (the danger there being that you might cook-off the whole damn stack). Therefore, it's cool as the proverbial cucumber. Also, it's a cool nuke, therefore Cuke = Nuke. I know, terrible pun, but it works.
Thoughts?
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| Concept bike... [yum!] |
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Posted by: robkelk - 01-24-2010, 03:35 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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http://variousmotorcyclebestpicturegall ... cycle.html]Yamaha Tesseract
I'm told that it runs on hydrogen.
It's got four wheels, and they all stay on the road when you lean into a curve.
Either Skuld's been visiting, or somebody's let the handwavium out of Fenspace...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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| The campaign finance ruling |
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Posted by: Morganite - 01-22-2010, 05:14 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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... isn't something I have anything directly to say about right now.
But I am amused that the language being used to criticize the decision is basically identical to that used against judicial rulings on same-sex marriage.
-Morgan.
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| Mythadventures Online! |
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Posted by: robkelk - 01-22-2010, 04:44 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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http://www.airshipentertainment.com/mythcomic.php]The old comic, that is. Three pages a week of free digital reprints, on the same schedule that Buck Godot was on - as of this posting, Phil and Kaja are up to page 5.
Just thought folks would like to know...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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| High-powered high-school plotbunny, free to a good home |
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Posted by: robkelk - 01-22-2010, 04:34 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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She looked straight at the new student. "Are you an alien, time-traveler, esper, or slider?"
"Well, no," the girl stammered in reply.
"Then why are you wasting my time?" The club leader spun on her heel and stormed off.
The underclassman looked upset, but determined. "The easy way to get close didn't work. She won't let us join her club."
The gem on her pendant twinkled and replied, "I'm sorry, my master."
I can't have been the only one to notice there's a major class of weirdness absent from Haruhi's list: mages. (I don't remember her ever including "mahou tsukai" in her list...)
And if the TSAB ever heard about Haruhi, they'd send somebody to investigate. Preferably somebody the right age who can already speak the language without magical assistance. If she has a couple of similar friends who can act as backup, just in case, so much the better.
Trouble is, I have no idea where to take this (except that Nanoha and Fate would be shocked to meet somebody who actually can travel through time)... so I'm offering it to whoever wants it.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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| Even More Inspirational and Meta Sites |
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 01-22-2010, 02:42 PM - Forum: Fenspace
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Okay, I'm inaugurating a new inspiration thread with this link:
Harvard Scientist creates
"intergalactic subway map" of the Milky Way.
Surely we can do something with this?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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| Looking for a BtVS/Blade crossover fic |
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Posted by: zero sum mgame - 01-21-2010, 11:19 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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...featuring Faith running into Blade, Abby, and Hannibal. It also had really cool dream sequences stolen from Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame.
I'm sure it was recommended here, but I can't find it in the archive.
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