[FoRK] NarcoGliders, was: Re: Narco Subs - The Triumph of Capitalism

[Damien Morton]

These guys have a magnesium seawater powered UUV and are getting a 3600km
range, with 760L inside the pressure hull.

http://202.114.89.60/resource/pdf/2509.pdf

<http://202.114.89.60/resource/pdf/2509.pdf>An this is decade old
techmology.

Some stone age forest dwelling crack zombies could surely bang out something
half as efficient, right?

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Damien Morton <dmorton at bitfurnace.com>wrote:

> Magnesium seawater battery - its pretty much bronze age techmology -
> http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/191_IR/chap_03/c3_5.htm
>
>  <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/191_IR/chap_03/c3_5.htm>Can melt
> down alloy car wheels for a start. Otherwise AZ61 alloy is hardly a
> controlled substance. Only other thing you need is  twisted
> wire titanium brushes with carbon fiber bristles. Easily made in some South
> Asian sweatshop, with barely a record kept.
>
> The electronics is the tricky stuff, but once you get the first one
> working, replicating to 1000s is easy enough. Again, south asian sweatshops,
> or buying a middle tier chinese RC toy maker isnt out of reach for the South
> American combinas.
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Stephen Williams <sdw at lig.net> wrote:
>
>> Really 'game over' if our southern businessmen build NarcoGliders...
>> No external propellers or emissions of any kind, potential for total
>> silence, super efficient long range, easy antenna raising, great depth...
>>
>>
>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/5-insanely-cool-robots-youll-desperately-want-but-never-be-able-to-afford/10247?pg=2
>>
>> How many of these have been sold in South America?
>>
>> Anyway, go iRobot!
>>
>> On 4/2/11 6:43 PM, Stephen Williams wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/2/11 6:08 PM, Damien Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>> When these guys get really smart and start churning out thousands
>>>> bathtub
>>>> sized robosubs powered by magnesium seawater batteries, it truly is
>>>> game-over. Until then, its WW2 tech all the way.
>>>>
>>>> What the fuck do you do when invaded by swarms of 1000s of silent
>>>> robosubs
>>>> bearing 50kg of cocaine, swimming up your rivers, your drainage outlets,
>>>> your harbours, and your god-damned toilets.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You change the economics...  If they're delivering fresh papaya and
>>> coffee, it wouldn't be so bad would it?  ;-)  And we could send back iPads
>>> to be good recyclers.  If you don't change the economics, then you have to
>>> live with the fact that you're always going to be outnumbered and outsmarted
>>> by the SillyNarco Valley "startups" of the _deep_ South.
>>>
>>
>> sdw
>>
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