The Nuclear Option
Alex: this is pretty nifty!
Alex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNEOI7bYl3c
Alex: (human exoskeleton)
Me: I’ll be excited when they perfect power-assisted jumping like in Starship Troopers (the book) :)
Alex: hehehe, indeed!
Alex: for now, that guy needs to watch out for his “tail” (power cord)
Alex: not as effective if he has to be plugged in
Me: That’s the other thing, helloooo nuclear power pack! I suppose you could use fuel cells instead, but where’s the fun in that?
Alex: fusion cells ‘R us!
Me: We had such hopes for nuclear energy, before people started building reactors out of smoke detectors.
Alex: lol
Alex: I’ve heard that nuclear power is starting to return to favor, with the realization that coal is even worse, and nuclear isn’t as dangerous as they thought (someone told me that, anyway)
Me: *nod* I heard something similar on NPR or read it in an article or something, within the last few days. They still seem to gloss over the whole, “what do we do with the waste?” I guess there is such a thing as recycling nuclear waste, however it produces weapons-grade materials, presenting a whole new set of trouble.
Alex: indeed
Alex: I don’t know enough about nuclear physics to offer any valid proposal
Alex: if there is enough interest, perhaps they will find a way to further alter it?
Alex: cost effective de-weaponization
Alex: or, something
Me: Mmm, might be diminishing returns on the energy at that point. if we could de-weaponize it, we could probably prevent it from becoming waste in the first place.
stupid diminishing returns.
AND! You didn’t appear four times in a row. broke it up. ;)
Heh, I didn’t appear 4 times in a row in my own flist either, heh, but I have 200-some people.