Re: New idea for shuttle heat shield
- From: "Plantaganet1" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:43:05 GMT
NASA should invest in an extrapulator to protect the shuttle during reentry.
"Agamemnon" <agamemnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Since there is a considerable lack of real sci-fi concepts in the new
> series I thought I should let RTD have this one for free.
>
> Instead of using those ridiculous heat proof tiles to protect the shuttle
> during re-entry what could be done is to convert the heat energy from the
> atmosphere into some other kind of energy which cannot damage the shuttle.
> So here is my idea. Build a heat exchanger in the base of the shuttle and
> use it to make electricity and then use that electricity to power a
> nuclear fusion reactor like the one at JET but instead of using nuclear
> fusion to generate energy, you fuse together two elements that absorb
> energy when they make a third stable element such as gold. In this way all
> the heat will completely disappear.
>
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