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From: andrew@nsc.nsc.com (andrew)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Planning a trip to Proxima Centauri
Summary: set the controls...
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Date: 1 Apr 89 05:40:27 GMT
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I think that interstellar hydrogen exists. Add energy; there's your 
deuterium for your palladium. Also, low temperatures exist (3 deg K). 
There's the environment for energy storage in (even an old-type) superconductor.
Now we have energy storage and generation of ideal type. What's the catch?
(is it in making the deuterium - or is there enough out there already?).
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