Re: Orbital Towers.

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 19:00:08 MST


At 08:19 PM 29/02/00 +0100, Anders wrote:

>BTW, apropos the "one way" fountain in your _The White Abacus_,
>wouldn't frictional heating in the atmosphere heat it above the Curie
>temperature?

Ratio mentions this in a flurry of reasons why it'd never work (before it's
shown working, and you can't argue with empiricism). My reply: *desperate
handwaving*... and that candy-pink coating on the iron ingots, maybe. :)

Damien



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