[FoRK] Smoking mad...

[Stephen D. Williams]

Jeff Bone wrote:
>
> ...
> I'm hip to that.
>
> I don't, for example, buy into the argument that individuals should be 
> able to own nuclear weapons.  (To pick an example not at random...)
>
> jb
Crap, how are we ever going to instantiate one of the main plot devices 
in Snow Crash?
Well, I guess the point of that case is that nobody was allowing him to 
own it, he just did and taking it away was problematic.  Sort of a catch 
235...

Interesting:
http://www.radiochemistry.org/periodictable/elements/92.html
> One pound of completely fissioned uranium has the fuel value of over 
> 1500 tons of coal.
3 million times the energy density...

I never had a number in mind before.
Now if I just had a ratio of impact of burning that coal vs. overhead 
and storage of uranium byproducts.

sdw

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