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To: Rat <shelps@ac*.ma*.ad*.ed*.au*>
To: techdiver@opal.com
Subject: Re: movement through water
From: <RLaird@pe*.co*>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 11:36:12 -0600

Stephen -

   >A swimming tail is not only less efficient for straight line travel it is 
   >horrendously complex compared to a propeller.  

Why is it less efficient?  

   >If you don't want a conventional drive, what about magnetohydrodynamic
(visa 
   >vis Red October)?

Well, for one thing, MHD drive requires supercondutor style magnets, liquid
nitrogen,
and other ultra-high tech and high $$$ equipment.  I was thinking along the
lines
of simplicity.  If two slabs of peizo-plastic in a meta-tail and $10 computer
controller to make the motion does it, then it doesn't seem all that complex
to me.  I'm not "telling", I'm "asking"...  ???

 -- Robert

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E-mail: RLaird@pe*.co* (Robert Laird)
Phone : 713-627-4323       Fax: 713-989-3086
Trunkline Gas Company, a subsidiary of
Panhandle Eastern Corporation, Houston, TX
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