Subject: [Homestead] nuclear waste and other science boondogles
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:31:02 -0700 (PDT)
I learned about that from an article about grandious
schemes that never made it, for obvious reasons. The
only other one I remember was the mohole.
Van Dell
--- Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 9/22/2007, you wrote:
> >Someone once proposed putting nuclear waste in a
> >rocket and sending it to the sun. Might work?
> until a
> >rocket blew up on takeoff.
>
> And how much fossil energy would that take? It
> could be done by setting it
> on a course to the sun but the cost and amount of
> energy required to get it
> going fast enough to get out of this very deep
> gravity well is
> prohibitive. Then as you mention what about the
> occasional
> malfunction? The shuttle is as safe as we can make
> it and look at its
> problems.
>
>
>
>
> Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up
> KI6DIU
>http://www.braingarage.com
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