Re: Fusion rocket science

2004-09-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
[I never got my first "Fusion rocket science" message back.] Someone who is much better at arithmetic than I am should please compare Table 1 in this paper (http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/reports/1996/TM-107030.pdf) to the following calculations. I assume "Cat-DD" means cataly

Fusion rocket science

2004-09-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/reports/1996/TM-107030.pdf - Jed

Re: Fusion rocket science

2004-09-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk writes: > >The entire world consumes 403 quads. A quad is a quadrillion Btu; 10E15 Btu > > I assume this is per annum? Yes. See: Annual Energy Review 2002, Table 11.1, p. 281, http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pdf/03842002.pdf. That is 2001 data. I went to the trouble to print

Re: Fusion rocket science

2004-09-22 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:50:28 -0400: Hi, [snip] >The entire world consumes 403 quads. A quad is a quadrillion Btu; 10E15 Btu I assume this is per annum? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk All SPAM goes in the trash unread.