Posted on 12/03/2021 9:29:05 AM PST by Red Badger
Fusion Ping!.................
I think the headline needs the word “contained” or “controlled” before the word fusion.
The pentagon several thousand fusion reactors that provide more energy than put into them.
And hopefully it won’t be accompanied by a really loud BOOM!
Cold Fusion is 25 ORDERS of MAGNITUDE better bang for the buck than Controlled Hot Fusion (CHF).
This fuel capsule is placed in a hollow gold chamber
I remember seeing a movie called Harry Potter and the Hollow Gold Chamber.
I have not seen a single HP movie, nor will I ever................
They will never hear it...........................
“Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than ABSORBED by The Fuel”
But not of the energy input (the energy used to power the lasers). A step forward but still a ways to go.
1.9 megajoules input from the laser to yield 1.3 in the reaction.
So how many kilowatt hours were consumed in the power supplies for those lasers and control magnets and cryogenic subsystems.
This is a nice experiment, but still a net loss against the power consumption to produce the reaction.
1.3 megajoule = 0.361111 kWh, or about 5 cents at my residential rates.
And they need to expend a “pencil eraser” sized, precisely machined gold object each time.
They may have achieved energy break-even, but they will need to improve this by at least three or four orders of magnitude to achieve financial break even.
“they finally made it past the breakeven point”
Actually no...
“The experiment, conducted on 8 August, fell just short of that mark; the input from the lasers was 1.9 megajoules.”
The headline is a bit deceiving because it talks about ABSORBED energy not INPUT energy.
why? they are safe. I watched all of them and to date I haven’t been visited by demons, nor have I had the urge to practice witchcraft or... lost any faith I have in the all mighty one.
they are good movies... you really missed out.
Economical fusion will be produced in a device the size of a Home AC unit, not the size of a football stadium.............................
I missed nothing.
They were originally written for children.
That ought to tell you something..........
I’m holding out for a Mr. Fusion.
Imaging if we spent trillions on cold fusion instead of money laundering to politicians’ friends: Perpetual free clean energy for the world.
We could probably do it for less than 1 trillion.
So now we spend billions more to perfect this, trillions more to build plants, and at the exact moment they are to throw the switch Democrats will demand it all be torn down and scrapped because of ...something. It doesn’t make any difference what so long as tons of time and money are wasted and civilization gets ground down just a little more.
1.3 Megajoules (MJ) = 1.23216 Cubic Feet of Natural Gas (cu ft ng) = 1,037 Btu per cubic foot = $1.00 residetial delivery. A pilot light for a week out of grain of rice sized target. Very neat.
Need GJ from MJ amounts of absorbed power by the fuel. A x100 - x1000 is interesting. Perhaps x 50 would be interesting in continues operations.
But I must say this is large enough scale to put flux numbers together with detectors a few yards away and move this to something other than a supermassive facility.
They need 50 years of development at the rate of Integrated Circuits for MR. Fusion. That would be cool to see, and liberals would hate it.
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