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For Void re Artificial Womb ...
Thank you for adding new reports to your important topic:
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For Void re heating ship bottoms to reduce viscosity
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This is an interesting idea. I hope you will do more with it.
Your AI friend might be able to run some numbers to see if it would make a useful difference.
Ships by the many thousands are likely to be in normal service around the world. They all must generate heat to produce power, and lf the energy consumed is likely to reach 30% or so efficiency of motion, then that 70% difference likely goes into the atmosphere right now.
The plumbing required to route hot water around the hull will add greatly to the cost of the ship.
A builder would need to balance costs of installation and maintenance of a system to deliver waste heat to the ocean instead of to the atmosphere against any benefits.
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For Void re interesting links ...
You and Calliban are doing the heavy lifting right now, while we wait for SpaceNut to figure out how to attract and retain more participants in the forum.
Thanks for the amusing comment on the idea of just a few people on the Moon so don't grow anything.
Whoever wrote that is stuck in a 15th Century mindset. Thankfully we have people like you and Calliban to take a more optimistic view. Science fiction writers have filled the Moon, Mars and many other places with plenty of people (and aliens), so we do have the expansionist view as an alternative.
The next few years should be interesting, if we (humans) can figure out how to put evil into a jug and keep it there.
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