New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant Tested 130
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from the burn-it-up dept.
from the burn-it-up dept.
eldavojohn writes "With the problem of moving conventional rocket fuel to the Moon and Mars on their minds, researchers from Purdue and Penn State successfully tested and demonstrated the use of aluminum-ice (ALICE) as fuel. In a paper from last August they outlined how it would work (PDF), and now they know it does. Space.com also has more information on the paper and how nano-scale aluminum functions as a fuel."
ALICE? (Score:5, Funny)
One of these days, ALICE. Wham! Pow! Straight to the Moon!
Re:In other words (Score:4, Funny)
Yep and apparently they've figured out a way to make water from ice.
Man, what science can do these days is amazing!
Re:ALICE? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Old news, but not to /. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Reading comprehension. (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm. One _could_ make solid fuel with rice flour and potassium chlorate or a similar oxidizer...
Wow, I knew McGyver posted under an alias on /. ;)
Re:ALICE? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isn't today, wasn't acceptable back then either (Score:3, Funny)
"now that is not funny either. And one does not laugh."
No, the mental image of (snk) Tiger Woods being whacked with a golf club by his wife is (snurf) most definitely not funny. Not even in abstract.
Sorry, something in my eye. I'll be right back.