<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 9, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Adrian Tymes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">4.3 Mtons * 80 TJ/ton = 344 EJ < 498 EJ<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That 4.3 million figure is just plain nuts.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "> Now, if someone could find a way to get far more than 80 terajoules from a ton of thorium,<br>that might be of use.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Not difficult as the true figure is 80 terajoules from a KILOGRAM of Thorium not a ton! You were off by a factor of 1000. Incidentally the Hiroshima bomb released about 60 terajoules.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div></body></html>