December 12, 20223 yr Awesome news! I saw that there was success in generating energy thru a fusion reaction about a year back that looked very promising but more energy was put in then gained at that point.
December 12, 20223 yr Author Just now, Mlodj said: News to you, old to us. I'm pretty sure that the biggest scientific breakthrough of the past 75=100 years deserves its own thread.....
December 12, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: Thanks Biden Seriously, is there anything he can't do?
December 12, 20223 yr 38 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Awesome news! I saw that there was success in generating energy thru a fusion reaction about a year back that looked very promising but more energy was put in then gained at that point. I don't know what you're so excited about. We're not sharing with Sweeden.
December 12, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, 20dawk4life said: Have we used it as a bomb yet? Hydrogen bombs already existed. This is an advancement toward the development of a fusion reactor.
December 13, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, VanHammersly said: I don't know what you're so excited about. We're not sharing with Sweeden. @DrPhilly do you still have that bikini team? Maybe a trade? Where's Howie?
December 13, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, VanHammersly said: I don't know what you're so excited about. We're not sharing with Sweeden. 1 hour ago, Arthur Jackson said: @DrPhilly do you still have that bikini team? Maybe a trade? Where's Howie? no deal
December 14, 20223 yr 6 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: did anyone get the coal miners union's response? So, more hours, less pay, worse conditions. Sounds right.
December 15, 20223 yr The laser beams themselves delivered ~ 2 megajoules of energy. The reaction put out ~ 3 megajoules of energy. The hidden problem - the devices creating the laser beams consumed over 300 megajoules while operating. Still, it is a milestone for energy output via a fusion reaction.
December 15, 20223 yr Those in the know say that, while this was an impressive achievement, this is more about a push for funding to be spent on covertly developing new nucular weapons than it is a push for funding to develop fusion.
December 15, 20223 yr 55 minutes ago, The_Omega said: Those in the know say that, while this was an impressive achievement, this is more about a push for funding to be spent on covertly developing new nucular weapons than it is a push for funding to develop fusion. Once again, we already have fusion based weapons. But even if we didn't, you think we wouldn't already be funding programs like that, and it would take something like this to kickstart it? How does that make sense to you at all?
December 15, 20223 yr 6 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: Once again, we already have fusion based weapons. But even if we didn't, you think we wouldn't already be funding programs like that, and it would take something like this to kickstart it? How does that make sense to you at all? It must be a sad existence to see controversy in everything, and not being able to enjoy the awe of science.
December 15, 20223 yr Not sure how this will work, to get energy to the grid. The pellet, has to be hit by lasers which have to fire constantly, once the pellet fuses they have to add more material to fuse and this process is repeated done over and over again. When the fusion occurs how do they capture the energy and how do they use get the energy onto the grid? Industrial scale for this is decades away. Again.
December 15, 20223 yr 7 hours ago, The_Omega said: Those in the know say that, while this was an impressive achievement, this is more about a push for funding to be spent on covertly developing new nucular weapons than it is a push for funding to develop fusion.
December 15, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, jsdarkstar said: Not sure how this will work, to get energy to the grid. The pellet, has to be hit by lasers which have to fire constantly, once the pellet fuses they have to add more material to fuse and this process is repeated done over and over again. When the fusion occurs how do they capture the energy and how do they use get the energy onto the grid? Industrial scale for this is decades away. Again. Long term, the thought would be to use this as a more feasible alternative than a tokamak reactor. To generate actual power, you can still use this as the heat source in a more advanced form of current reactors (boil water > steam > turbine) which would be much safer (no fissile material so far less radioactive waste and little to no risk of meltdown).
December 16, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, jsdarkstar said: Not sure how this will work, to get energy to the grid. The pellet, has to be hit by lasers which have to fire constantly, once the pellet fuses they have to add more material to fuse and this process is repeated done over and over again. When the fusion occurs how do they capture the energy and how do they use get the energy onto the grid? Industrial scale for this is decades away. Again. Those in the know say that it’s the technology that is ten years away, and always will be.
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