Nukes not need to be too expensive. A mass production would bring their price down.
Still, big empty spheres would pose a problem. Perhaps we should put them on the top of a 20 kilometers high tower and cool them with the water pumped up.
An explosion of 1 Mt every hour would mean about 1000 GW of raw power. Several of those would be currently more than enough.
Mass production wouldn't necessarily make them less expensive than they already are. During the cold war the USA and USSR effectively mass-produced thousands of warheads. Official cost estimates for the manufacture cost aren't available but it seems that the US government managed to bring the cost of plutonium down from about $100,000/g to $500/g or so (The price of plutonium for civilians using it for chemistry purposes is currently around ten times that, however, and it's obviously an extremely restricted and regulated substance). A nuclear weapon needs about 2 kg of plutonium minimum, so that's about $1,000,000 per warhead at the very least.
This thread is intended to provide a space for 'crazy' ideas. Ideas that spontaneously come to mind (and feel great), ideas you long wanted to tell but never found the place and time for and also for ideas you think should be obvious and simple - but nobody ever mentions them.
This thread itself is such an idea. Or rather the tangent of such an idea which I post below as a seed for this thread.
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If this should become a regular thread I suggest the following :