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That's an understatement. Li-air batteries would solve the energy density problems for electric planes. Storing energy in nuclear isomers would be more suited
by hwillis 7y ago
That's an understatement. Li-air batteries would solve the energy density problems for electric planes. Storing energy in nuclear isomers would be more suited to like... single stage to orbit electric scramjets. Hovershoes and laser guns, that kind of thing.
- datenwolf 7y agoWell among other things, one problem to solve is, how to control the output power. If you were to just charge a bunch of nuclear isomers, they'd afterward release the energy by a regular decay process with a given half life (or call it nuclear "flourescence" lifetime, or whatever). This puts them on the same conceptual stage as RTGs. It should be possible to stimulate the emission of radiation, i.e. build the nuclear isomer equivalent to a chemical laser. That'd would allow to control the release of power and not depend on random decay.