Re: KRnet> Re: Lipo Battery/Lithium wives tales

[Jeff Scott via KRnet]

It's been done. Look up the Rover Project from back in the early days of nuclear power development. The goal was to create a bomber that didn't need refueling. Thus was back about the time the B-36 bomber was king. It was proven, but also impractical as well as politically unacceptable. -- Sent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity. On 6/14/24, 7:47 AM Larry Flesner via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: On 6/13/2024 10:58 PM, Jeff Scott via KRnet wrote: I once heard or read that it was lithium that they added to the atomic bomb in WWII to increase the yield. As atomic weapons were not a settled science at that point they added too much on one test and they nearly wiped out a few observers.  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My timing was off 10 years or so.  It apparently was the Castle Bravo test in 1954 that the engineers lack of understanding of the reaction of Lithium 7 that nearly took out some engineers.  They were rescued by helicopter as I recall .  At least that's how I recall the event being told. Jeff, with your background, could you possibly come up with a nuclear reactor to power the KR?  I'm not sure what the benefit would be as I'd still have to come down to pee.  🙂 Larry -- KRnet mailing list KRnet@list.krnet.org https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet

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