[TML] Don't try this at home (was New 3d computer simulation design)

[Timothy Little]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:12:41AM -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> This is like saying, "Well if we can get 12 MW out of Palo Verde
> Nuclear plant we should be able to get MUCH more out of a couple 10
> megaton nuclear bombs."

That statement is very probably true.  There were some moderately
serious proposals to detonate bombs in an underground chamber and
harness the pressures that resulted.

If all other fusion reactors fail, this one would most likely work
even if inefficiently, expensively, and messily :-)


- Tim