h a l f b a k e r y"It would work, if you can find alternatives to each of the steps involved in this process."
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Put a lightweight nuclear reactor in a big transport helicopter. Recycle coolant; cool coolant with air (current reactors cool the coolant in a river after it has gone through the generator turbines). Then your helicopter can fly for a really long time! Yay! Do I hear first helicopter flight around the
world without refueling???
(?) Nuclear Airplane
http://www.aboutnuc...gi?fC=Space,History
Was mostly baked. [Worldgineer, Nov 15 2005]
More, for [wag]
http://www.nuclear....lear_airplanes.html
[Worldgineer, Nov 15 2005]
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An endless thumping sound glowed through the night skies... |
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The helicopters in NYC keep crashing in the East River, and it's polluted enough already, thank you, without throwing plutonium into the mix. |
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//lightweight nuclear reactor// bzzt WIBNI [marked–for-cold-fusion] |
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[lurch] I disagree that this implies cold fusion. |
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Thanks for the link [world]. Once again I find that an idea that appears (to me) too dangerous and stupid even for the halfbakery has been developed in the real world. |
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Dangerous doesn't factor in much when designing for a nuclear war, which I assume was the intent. You'd end up with an airplane that could circle the earth for a length of time only limited by food supply (or not even that if computer controlled (shiver)). Arm it with a few dozen nuclear bombs, and it may be an effective way of winning (ha) the second round of a nuclear war. |
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