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minus-squareschema@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 months agoA 175m road scaled in reference to the 35m wide lane:
minus-squarepsx_crab@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoYeah i was thinking that too, no way 175m is that narrow.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoi mean yeah but how much of that energy can you get out of that uranium, and at what speed?
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoWith about 200kg of the right kind, pretty much all of it quite quickly.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoIsn’t fission actually remarkably inefficient? It’s just that extracting even a single percent of the energy in matter is enough to make it the most ludicrously powerful thing we can do
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoCan’t be less efficient than boiling water.
minus-squarepemptago@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoQuality contribution. I completely overlooked the relative sizes.
A 175m road scaled in reference to the 35m wide lane:
Yeah i was thinking that too, no way 175m is that narrow.
https://xkcd.com/1162/
i mean yeah but how much of that energy can you get out of that uranium, and at what speed?
With about 200kg of the right kind, pretty much all of it quite quickly.
Isn’t fission actually remarkably inefficient? It’s just that extracting even a single percent of the energy in matter is enough to make it the most ludicrously powerful thing we can do
Can’t be less efficient than boiling water.
Quality contribution. I completely overlooked the relative sizes.