Crew Excursion Vehicle and Military Space Tug.

In message , Pat Flannery
writes


Jorge R. Frank wrote:

Maybe half. "On the bounce" was a favorite phrase of Sergeant Jelal
from the book. I don't know what the hell a "homopolar generator" is,


I'm surprised that more people haven't heard about it around here...I
mean seriously, we all know how to evacuate ourselves from a Sperry
Ball Turret, so I just assumed....

But given a big flywheel/rotor at high RPM, you can dump a terrific
amount of momentary electrical power into whatever you want to drive
as the rotor is stopped...around the amount coming out of Hoover Dam
from something the size of a large basement freezer.

They use (or did use) one at the JET project to provide the pulse for
their fusion tests.
But it's "Rodger" Young - or did the film get that wrong too?
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