RE: Nanotech Arms Race

From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon Jan 25 1999 - 09:58:02 MST


Billy Brown [bbrown@conemsco.com] wrote:
>It still wouldn't make them possible. To get power out of the reaction you
>have to be able to capture the radiation produced by the fusion reaction,
>and convert it into a useful form of energy.

I was talking about nuclear energy in the more general sense; not neccesarily
controlled use. Personally I find the idea of a mosquito flying through
my window carrying a multi-ton-yield fusion bomb rather more scary than a
nanobot running off a miniature nuclear reactor. People had previously
assumed that any hostile nanobot would be limited to chemical energy
levels rather than nuclear.

    Mark



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