[ExI] Thermal nuclear rocketry

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2024-07-23 11:21, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
>> I tried
>> applying for SBIR grants a couple of time for my airship-based
>> flying
>> solar power power plants, and never heard back from them.
> 
> Huh, never?  Not even a rejection letter?  I can believe it, but
> they're really supposed to at least say "no" rather than leave you
> hanging.
> 
> In theory, if they reject, they're supposed to at least give you a
> hint as to why, perhaps what you can revise to have a better chance of
> winning next time.

It was back during the Obama years when Solyndra was all the rage and 
hoovering up all the Fed's solar power grants. I even had contacted some 
vendors that had could supply the materials I would need for 
prototyping. Oh, well. It is water under the bridge. I hope you go all 
the way, Adrian.

Stuart