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clearly, the best thing to do with his body is to cut him up into 1 gram pieces and sell his flesh as collectors items. It'll help go for the national debt.

No seriously, they are treating him with islamic law and are going to bury him by 4:00 pm eastern may 2.

Sounds like another idea that an imaginative and technically incline 9 year old might come up with. I had ideas like this... ones that sound cool when you don't think in terms of costs / benefits vs alternative ways to do the same things. I would file this with the other "innovative" ideas that I've...

But my point was that extra large nukes are not necessarily more efficient or economical. Something that gets installed quickly and starts producing revenue in a year from order date is going to be a lot more economical than ten years of interest on a massive loan with no income. The only thing that...

Utilities would prefer 25 to 100 MW chunks. Fission nukes come in 1,000 MW chunks and are viable for base load. Fission plants can come in any size you care to design them. Most people "back in the day" seemed to think bigger was better, for economies of scale, so what we have now off-the-shelf is ...

alancj- It's $1.3 billion, $433 million per 100 megawatts, (WB-100 equivalent) and it came from a newspaper article picked up by the Internet. I found it with a Google search on "Cassville Power Plant" after the lead popped up on my home page. Must not be the one you linked to because that one says...

Where did you get the 1.2 B figure? If true that's a terrible, $4333/KWe, which seems to be about as bad as fission nukes. They'd be better off getting in line for a new nuclear plant. I'd go for a couple PBMR's.

-Alan

That's a good idea. One or more spools of wire, fish it in through a Teflon tube, and evaporate the end of it with an e-beam within the magrid. This company sells wire, and also they have some B11 and B10 isotopes, but they don't say what form it's in. http://www.americanelements.com/bmw.html How mu...

The choice is clear: The Bussard Fusorater.

The US's total installed generating capacity is 1,089,807 MW according to http://www.eei.org/industry_issues/industry_overview_and_statistics/industry_statistics/index.htm . So we'd probably need almost 11,000 100 MW net reactors if we wanted to completely replace everything. If you wanted it done i...