On Tuesday, December 14, 1993 at 12:23:08 PM UTC-8, Thad Wilson wrote:
Why does everyone keep talking about the amount of energy output,
instead of the ratio of input energy to output energy. I see no
reason to get excited about the fact that you can input 30(?)MW and
get back 5.5, unless the ration 5.5/30 is a new record. (Is it?)
Otherwise, all people have to do to get in the news is keep building
bigger versions of reactors that are no closer to break-even than
previous ones -- they're just bigger, so the absolute output is higher. >Paul Koloc, please give us your assessment of this news.
Will someone respond to this!!! The way the press played this thing you
would think they got positive output!!! I thing that the real "Tokamak" reactor got up to 60% output > 30 years ago!!! I think a small reactor
should be more unpredictable than a large reactor. So whats the big
deal???? I smell a rat.
What do you need to know?
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)