Re: Blast from the Past - quotes from Edward Teller

2005-05-13 Thread Michael Huffman
Moin Jeff! The rotary cavitation device is still a very interesting machine, in my opinion. I think that it would make a dandy subcritical neutron generator, ala Jones Beene. It would bring the cost down to under 20K per unit as opposed to 500K. It can be used for many, many other things as

Re: Blast from the Past - quotes from Edward Teller

2005-05-12 Thread Michael Huffman
Am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2005 21:40 schrieb Jed Rothwell: A number of Dr. Jones' statistical findings are listed in the following table: Reduced Life Expectancy Being 10 per cent overweight: 1.5 years Smoking one pack of cigarettes a day: 9 years Living in the city instead of the country: 5

Re: Blast from the Past - quotes from Edward Teller

2005-05-12 Thread revtec
Hey Knuke, I have a question for you. What ever happened to your experiment with the run away plexiglass cavitating turbine. That was a really interesting article in IE about ten years ago. So interesting that at that time I attempted to approximate in steel what you did in plastic. I'm sure

Blast from the Past - quotes from Edward Teller

2005-05-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here are some quotes from a book advocating aboveground nuclear bomb testing. To quote another 1950s idol, What me worry? - Jed E. Teller and A. Latter, Our Nuclear Future. . . Facts Dangers And Opportunities, (Criterion Books, 1958) We have compared radiation from the fallout with radiation