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[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by elijah
May we exchange something with Noosland for your technology, to save us 3 months of R&D spending?

[OCC]

Nobody reads these posts carefully anymore

[/OCC]

You are welcome to join the region-wide Fusion Research Initiative. We have just recently completed phase II, which is the construction of Apolyton II, a reactor rated at 400 GW. Now we are in phase III, our goal is to build a reactor rated at 8000 GW.

[Jack_www]

The USJ will also start using Fusion technology. We will start replacing many of our oil and coal plants with Fusion, the coal plants will be the first to be replaced.
The USJ would like to provide 2 Billion dollars in funding for the next phase of the project.

[Whaleboy]

We have dedicated a particle-physics research centre for refining the magnetic containment techniques in this, and are currently building a 1TW reactor as a testbed.

This technology will be very useful for our space programme, which has just received an enormous boost from our Marley-class shuttles....

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by elijah
We have dedicated a particle-physics research centre for refining the magnetic containment techniques in this, and are currently building a 1TW reactor as a testbed.

That's where your problem is. The reactor is too large. You should start small.

[Whaleboy]

Ah!! That explains why we lose magnetic containment so easily. There is too much of a delay between plasma pressure rising, and magnetic containment increases kicking in. Had a few *close ones* .

We will modify the deuterium injectors, thus rating the power down to 150GW. We shall increase this figure when we get the balance right! Thanks for the tip!

[Jack_www]

The USJ is now in the early stages of devoloping a new MTB. Our Abrams M1A2 tanks have served our millitary well, but our millitary is demanding that they get a new and improved version of the tank.

[Whaleboy]

What does MTB actually mean?

[GeneralTacticus]

It's meant to be 'MBT', and it means 'Main Battle Tank'...

[Urban Ranger]

With technology acquired from N-RAC, the Nooslandian Institute of Advanced Research, together with a research team from Southwestern University, is able to fabricate a new generation of solar panels on a large scale. These panels require no toxic materials in the manufacturing process, and has an efficiency rating of 40%.

They have also discovered how to make silicon beads (small spheres). These can be used to create flexible panels for wrapping around objects of almost any shape.

[Urban Ranger]

Noosland has recently completed the prototype of a new tunnel drilling machine. The revolutionary nature of this machine is it has no drilling heads, instead, it uses high energy ultrasound to break down rocks. This drilling method is much more efficient because much less waste heat is generated, and there are a lot less moving parts requiring constant maintenance.

[Whaleboy]

How did you get round the problem of conglomerate rocks, whose constituent parts have a different resonant frequency?

[Whaleboy]

How did you get round the problem of conglomerate rocks, whose constituent parts have a different resonant frequency?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by elijah
How did you get round the problem of conglomerate rocks, whose constituent parts have a different resonant frequency?

We don't use the resonance approach. We just use ultrasound as shockwaves.

[Urban Ranger]

The Solar Explorer satellite has successfully completed its mission and is now returning to earth for recovery. It will attempt to establish a low attitude orbit around earth, so it can be taken on board of a space shuttle.

[Whaleboy]

We already have three Marley-class shuttles in orbit, we can organise a rendez-vous if you wish.

We are preparing to modify the FSS Marley for a long-range exploration mission to Mars. The ion engines, and good crew, cargo and hydroponics capacity of this class of ship makes it well suited for such a scientific mission.