From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Mar 06 1999 - 14:22:09 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
> No, not if you insist on blowing yourself into space on a swiftly depleted
> column of hot gas. How about my favourite gadget, a Hyde Space Fountain?
> Keep your power plant decently on the ground, and run up the virtual ladder
> on electromagnetism. Room-temp superconductors would surely help.
Damien, why do we need room temp superconductors? In space you
have a vast expanse of 3 degrees Kelvin space in which to radiate away
waste heat. Our current liquid nitrogen temp superconductors might be
sufficient if we work out the other details. spike
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