Meson guns for defense Christopher Sean Hilton (13 Sep 2016 16:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Jeffrey Schwartz (13 Sep 2016 16:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense C. Berry (13 Sep 2016 16:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson (13 Sep 2016 18:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Evyn MacDude (15 Sep 2016 05:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Kelly St. Clair (15 Sep 2016 10:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson (15 Sep 2016 19:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense C. Berry (15 Sep 2016 19:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Kenneth Barns (15 Sep 2016 22:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense W. Hopper (15 Sep 2016 22:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense C. Berry (15 Sep 2016 22:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Kelly St. Clair (16 Sep 2016 02:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Richard Aiken (16 Sep 2016 08:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Jeffrey Schwartz (16 Sep 2016 00:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense shadow@xxxxxx (16 Sep 2016 03:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson (16 Sep 2016 15:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Andrew Long (16 Sep 2016 16:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Jeffrey Schwartz (16 Sep 2016 17:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Bruce Johnson (16 Sep 2016 17:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense C. Berry (16 Sep 2016 17:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Peter L. Berghold (13 Sep 2016 20:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense Richard Aiken (14 Sep 2016 01:08 UTC)

Re: [TML] Meson guns for defense shadow@xxxxxx 16 Sep 2016 03:53 UTC

On 15 Sep 2016 at 20:28, Jeffrey Schwartz wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bruce  Johnson
> <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sep 13, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz
> >> <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> "Deep meson sites"
> >>
> >> Yeah, it's even canon!
> >
> > Yes there are numerous refs in canon to things like that, if it´s
> > powered by geothermal you don´t have to worry about running out of
> > power; at least until James Bond lets the lava out :-P
> >
> > I suspect someone even built or or two back in the day doing things
> > like testing the limits of FF&S and such.
>
> If it were geothermal, that would prevent neutrino emissions that
> would give orbiting meson armed ships a target

Though you'd still have to be careful about what you used as the
"cold" side of the setup. It needs to be significantly cooler than
the hot end or you won't get a lot of power.

Also, it needs to be something that the heat will spread out from
quickly, or it'll get warm and reduce the efficiency of the
generator.

The problem that requires care is to avoid causing an anomalous "hot
spot" that can be detected from orbit. That'd be a giveaway too.

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