Posted on 12/14/2022 3:24:49 PM PST by algore
California scientists announced a breakthrough that could commercialize nuclear fusion in a few decades, but a Vancouver-based company has a method that claims to power homes with the technology by the early 2030s.
Unlike at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which used lasers to achieve net gain energy, General Fusion compresses hydrogen plasma inside a large cylinder to increase density and temperature.
General Fusion's method uses high-powered pistons to squeeze liquid metal around the plasma to build pressure until the mixture hits 180 million degrees Fahrenheit - and fusion occurs.
The firm says it plans to have its first commercial power plant online by the early 2030s, but is targeting 2027 to demonstrate fusion on a power plant level.
MTF uses magnetic fields to slow down plasma losses and inertial compression to heat the plasma.
The unique process starts with injecting hydrogen plasma into a vessel lined with liquid metal.
Then, pistons are activated to compress the liquid metal around the plasma, squeezing and building pressure until the plasma reaches the optimal temperature for creating fusion.
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180 million degrees? This, I gotta see.
LLL`s fusion uses only one building 3 football fields long.
Perfect for your average home.
The question to ask is why are they making these claims now? Perhaps to lower resistance to the Green New Deal. There has to be a reason, and it’s not that it’s going to ever see the light of day.
The WEF Great Reset is scheduled for 2030, so there is that.
Once Method X is shown to be viable, it reduces incentives to fund research into Y and Z, unless those are seen as equally viable.
What happened to room temperature (cold) fusion?
The aliens are returning soon. The Canadians want it make money on their hidden technology before the free energy deal is made with the returning race.
Money,money, money, money... for both claims.
The General Fusion claim is considerably less persuasive.
Missouri resident, just do it. I’ll believe it when power flows to my home from it.
Charlatans and snake oil salesmen rear their heads when the world needs hope. They distract from what really works. You can witness the same thing with all the pill popping ads on TV. Have your fruits and veggies in pills appeals to the hopeless fat and lazy. The same forces are at play with alternative energy. It’s getting to the point that many people see today’s alternative energy doesn’t work, so something new is required to give hope. Guess what works. Coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear and hydro. If you’re popping pills because you’re fat and lazy, get off your fat ass, eat real fruits and veggies, and move your body. That’s proven to work. No hope required.
If something goes wrong at 180 million degrees the only thing you will see is a flash of light and it’ll be all over.
I believe we could scale up the drinking bird for limitless energy.
Like globull warming, you go where the grant money is. 180 million degrees versus 72.
Have you been watching The Grit Channel with me? I need me some Omega whatever fish oil pills so I can walk from the toilet to my lazyboy.
I kind of like this: https://www.quaise.energy/
Very deep, very hot geothermal. The idea is to dig the wells using high power microwave energy since regular drills will not work. Drill these near to thing like steam powered coal power plants to replace the use of coal.
Whether this is feasible I don’t know. In theory it should work nicely, just an issue of making the deep holes. At any rate, I think some scheme like this will be the solution - not fusion, not wind, not solar.
"One hundred eighty million degrees. Centigrade."
But, that'll cool the iron core, allowing it to solidify. That'll simultaneously collapse earth's magnetic field, and act like a giant brake shoe, stopping earth's rotation: we'll all fly off into space!
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