From: Bill Lucy 

In article , bobcomer-
removeme-{at}mindspring.com says...
> >That means a relatively
> >small amount of mass can convert to a large amount of energy.
>
> Sorry, that knowledge was already there before the first nuclear
> explosion, we just upped the level on how much we could convert. (it's
> still a pitiful yield compared to E=MC2')

That's sounds to me like saying that the Carnot Cycle is theory because we
can't get beyond a certain efficiency. Fat Man converted 17% of its fission
mass to energy. Castle Bravo approved 36% efficiency. That's not pitiful
IMHO.

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