Timeline for How can I make a Nuclear Powered VTOL Safe?
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| Jul 27, 2021 at 17:30 | comment | added | jdunlop | Using steam directly to drive the vehicle is kind of a terrible idea for a couple of reasons - one, nuclear contamination, but two, it means you're exhausting your heat transfer medium. You have to carry not only the reactor, but sufficient mass of water to propel your vehicle. Water's heavier even than jet fuel. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 17:23 | comment | added | jdunlop | @user6760 - a SMR still has the crappy power-to-weight-ratio that makes reactors impractical in aircraft. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 16:47 | answer | added | Mike Serfas | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 3:24 | answer | added | Green | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 0:15 | history | edited | Thomas Reinstate Monica Myron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited hovercraft to VTOL.
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| Jul 21, 2015 at 23:29 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 23:27 | comment | added | user6760 | Wiki have solution for you here but your hovercraft should operate in desert or open areas. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 23:15 | history | edited | JDługosz |
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| Jul 21, 2015 at 23:09 | comment | added | Samuel | You said "able to go from the ground to a building hundreds of stories high". That's not a hovercraft, that's an aircraft. Maybe you're specifically looking for a VTOL aircraft. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 22:59 | answer | added | ifly6 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 22:42 | history | asked | Thomas Reinstate Monica Myron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |