[time-nuts] alkali metals and water

Robert Atkinson robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 3 07:52:55 UTC 2011


Hmm,
Anyone else remember Sodium-Sulphur secondary batteries? they were proposed for electric vehicles in the late 70's I rode on a prototype at Chloride. You have to heat them up to melt both the Sodium and the Sulphur to make them work (about 270 deg C). Always sounded like a bad mixture to me.
 
Robert G8RPI.
 


--- On Wed, 2/3/11, Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:


From: Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] alkali metals and water
To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" <time-nuts at febo.com>
Date: Wednesday, 2 March, 2011, 20:59


Hi

I believe we were up to several tons of mercury in the basement when the
thread died for some reason. Could be quite a splash if that got loose.

It's the couple of hundred pounds of liquid metallic sodium in the heating
system that seems to have the neighbors a bit concerned these days. (That
always was seemed to be a risky thing to do..). 

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Magnus Danielson
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 3:15 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] alkali metals and water

On 03/02/2011 08:53 PM, Robert Atkinson wrote:
> Agreed,
> Braniac just do rigged explosions and special effects. Unfortunatly many
take it as fact. It makes Mythbusters look lokr PhD research.

I can drop a spare LPRO-101 into a bowl of water, but I don't think the 
result will be spectacular even with power hooked up.

Dropping a 5071A into a bathtub will be a more spectacular splash, but 
nothing to write home about.

Now, this makes me recall the big tanks of water and LPROs in Bob's 
basement. Consider the water damages it would do...

Cheers,
Magnus

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