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Are you sure there's no way? Or do you mean that's not economically sensible to do so? RTGs are designed to survive uncontrolled reentry. I am aware that they
by outworlder 10y ago
Are you sure there's no way? Or do you mean that's not economically sensible to do so?
RTGs are designed to survive uncontrolled reentry. I am aware that they are much simpler devices, but we are talking about containment.
There's no way to get the public to accept that though.
- TylerE 10y agoThe most powerful RTG ever flown had a power output of 3kW. A typical commercial jet engine (on a SUBSONIC aircraft) is on the order of 50MW. Might as well try to power an ocean-going freighter with a hand-held sterling engine.