Hmm Professor, I am thinking metallic h2 as a primo fusion fuel. Forget magnetic fusion, use inertial confinement fusion against metallic targets. Having said this, it's probably an energy sink, with the immense pressures needed to form metallic hydrogen.
-----Original Message----- From: Hans Moravec <[email protected]> To: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jan 26, 2017 7:23 pm Subject: Metastable metallic hydrogen propulsion Something like antimatter propulsion, but much easier? Metallic hydrogen: The most powerful rocket fuel http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/215/1/012194/meta Hydrogen Squeezed Into a Metal, Possibly Solid, Harvard Physicists Say https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/science/solid-metallic-hydrogen-harvard-physicists.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
