Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub?

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

Sodium, calcium or potassium.  Except you'd still have waste.
Carl


Warrend Greenway wrote:
> 
> The most ovbious source of power for a PSUB is solar. The only problem is that this is only viable if
> you live on in or by the ocean. Naturally I'm not talking about solar panels, but wave action. Wave action
> is easy to harvest, and has incredible power producing  potential. If I ever get my habitat set up, you
> guys will be welcome to charge at my electrical "fueling station"! My sound too hopefull, but what isn't
> practical about it? There was some city in Florida, I believe, that was actually building generators to
> harvest wave action energy. It's a little wild, but perfectly practical.
> 
> Warren.
> 
> P.S. Refined sodium (raw materials all available in the sea) would be another great source of high
> density cheap stored energy. Last I heard, though, it was difficult to refine. Anyone know otherwise?
> 
> > Those are thermopiles.. not reactors..  Another viable resource ;-)   And someone else mentioned certian devices using alpha particles to knock electrons across a solar cell...  Again.. another viable option.  but still not quite what I was looking at.  These are actually one of the safest sources of "nuclear" power... a completely sealed compartment that produces energy for the halflife of the material contained within.  Problem is, this requires some really radioactive stuff.  The "pile" was obviously only mildly radioactive.  if even that.  Remember enrico fermi lived a long life after this reactor.
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> >
> > On 1/5/2003 at 3:56 PM Dale A. Raby wrote:
> > Hey, now.... wouldn't that be cool.  The reactors on board some of those old space probes launched in the sixties are still producing current from their thermocouples in atomic piles... tiny ones at that...after all these years.
> >
> 
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