abcscagz@csuna.csun.edu (Jeff Boeing) (03/27/89)
In article <5700009@silver> commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes: > >With fusion power, transmutation of elements is economical. So is >reclaiming them from sea water, and so is going to the asteroids! With HOT fusion power, transmutation is economical. With fusion power that yields a net power output of 3 Watts, occurring at room temperature, you have just about as much of a chance of turning something into Platinum as you do of causing all the air molecules in the room to simultaneously jump one foot to the left. Time to start sending round-trip spacecraft to the asteroid belt, isn't it, guys? -- Jeff Boeing: ...!csun.edu!csuna!abcscagz (formerly tracer@stb.UUCP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Brilliance! That's all I can say . . . sheer, unadulterated brilliance!" -- Wile E. Coyote, Super-Genius