On Oct 12, 9:35 am, wrote:
Blanche wrote:
Kirk Ellis kae wrote:
Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ortation/index....

We're actually gonna have a Transporter someday!

Not bloody likely.

First you would have to be able to convert a standard 190 lb mass to
energy, store and transport the energy to somewhere else, convert
the energy back to matter, all without loss.

Do a back of the envelope estimate of the energy involved here.

I don't think energy will be a problem in the future. I'm sure packet
sized reactors will be common. Converting a mass into energy is almost
trivial. The challenge is in reassembling everything, not just exactly
as its suppose to be but quick enough that it stabalizes. You don't
want 1/2 a cell sitting around for 1/2 a second.

-Robert