Posted on 10/06/2015 8:56:26 AM PDT by AZLiberty
I hope they find it
“...temperatures of 100 million degrees centigrade and more.”
huh?
” in hopes of making serious money.”
WRONG!
He says he’s doing it for the environment.
Fusion is a chimera that shall not be an established technology anytime soon. We shall have dilithium crystals available sooner than we shall have a reliable fusion power plant.
A technology called “Plasma arc trash reduction”, a process by which ALL forms of trash are reduced to their constituent atomic structure, then the heat generated by this process is used to drive electric power generation. The primary products of this process are “syngas”, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, both of which are excellent fuels that may be used to drive the generation of electric power, and a silica slag which contains practically all other components of whatever went into the trash stream.
The volume of the slag that comes off is about a quarter to a tenth of the volume of the original trash, and it may be mined for various metallic content, as it is a higher grade of ore than is most of the material that is hauled up out of the ground by various mining operations all over the world. It may be hot-formed into building blocks, and depending on how it is cooled (rapid quench or slow radiant cooling), it forms various grades of igneous stone. Or it may be crushed as aggregate for concrete or for road building purposes.
Once up and running, the operating temperature of the plasma torch is about 33,000 degrees F., about three times the temperature of the sun’s surface. The syngas generated is about 2,200 degrees F., and is passed over a heat exchanger to generate superheated steam, in the process of cooling it. Once cooled, the stream of hydrogen and carbon monoxide may be separated, yielding up pure hydrogen which may be used to power a fuel cell, or burned directly in the presence of oxygen to yield a very hot flame, which may be used to further produce power through the medium of superheated steam. Carbon monoxide itself is an excellent fuel which when combined with oxygen, forms carbon dioxide, a safe, NON-POLLUTING fraction of our atmosphere, and one that is vital for the photosynthesis of oxygen and carbohydrates in green growing plants. The carbon dioxide may also be captured, cooled and compressed into either liquid CO2, or allowed to become “dry ice”, an intensely cold and solid form of CO2, and an important industrial product.
The hydrogen, of course, when combined with oxygen, becomes water vapor.
Empty out our land fills and turn those blighted acres back into “greenfields”, divert all the existing and continuing waste stream into electric power, reduce need for and dependence on fossil fuels, assure a continuous supply of building materials that will prove to be the equal of our current supplies, and provide a way of reclaiming metallic elements otherwise lost when merely dumped in a hole in the ground. And not only the land fills, the sewage sludge that is now dumped there could go through this plasma arc, with the decomposed fecal matter adding its bit to the “syngas”, and simultaneously extracting all the dreaded metals like cadmium and mercury from circulation in the soil and groundwater.
I don’t see a downside. Most elegant solution.
It has been estimated that perhaps fewer than a dozen of these processing units could both clean up all the existing waste dumps, and the current waste stream, for a municipality the size of New York City, and generate enough electricity to keep it lit and industry-capable, without tapping into outside sources.
There is a place to spend the funds for infrastructure that does NOT have to be only for the roads and bridges. This is infrastructure that actually IMPROVES our environment. And generates a number of useful by-products, not the least of which is relatively cheap electric power.
And carbon-neutral to boot. NO fossil fuels are used once the cycle is started.
Yup just like the Cubbies are going to win the WS this year!
Oh wait:
https://www.facebook.com/ign/videos/10153290620731633/
Nope, they don't claim that:
So, no one "proved" that a bumblebee can't fly. What was shown was that a certain simple mathematical model wasn't adequate or appropriate for describing the flight of a bumblebee.
I'll leave it to the reader to ponder the significance of this statement, in the context of the "issues of today".
I enjoyed reading your post, but this: “a process by which ALL forms of trash are reduced to their constituent atomic structure” doesn’t make sense or mean anything.
Do you mean reduced to the trash’s elemental components?
The most efficient fusion fuel is a mixture of deuterium and tritium
Temperature: between 100 and 200 million degrees Celsius
https://www.euro-fusion.org/fusion/fusion-physics/fusion-conditions/
Maybe because you didn't consider cost?
Darn. And I just sold my Delorean.
” fusion projects have to use massive lasers or extreme heat—millions degrees centigrade”
Gore says just go to the center of the Earth! Simple!
millions degrees centigrade?.................
Yes, hence a major problem (expense) in fusion power.
...And the Detroit Lions and Jacksonville Jags are gonna meet in the Superbowl........................
Which is why it will never be used. Too many fingers in the pie will get shortchanged..............
But you gotta B-E-L-I-E-V-E !...................(and have a zillion bucks)................
And the Detroit Lions and Jacksonville Jags are gonna meet in the Superbowl........................
LOL
Superbowl facts! The Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns (current iteration), Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans are the only current teams to have never played in a Super Bowl.
Detroit did play in NFL Championships prior to the establishment of the Super Bowl in the 1966-67 season, as did the original Cleveland Browns. The latter two are expansion teams (as is the new iteration of the Browns) so they don’t have as many years of history to work with.
Cleveland is weird because the original Cleveland Browns team that became the Ravens never played in a Super Bowl during their time in Cleveland, but did play (and win) as the Ravens. So the city of Cleveland is shut out over two franchises. Similarly, the city of Houston is shut out over two teams — Houston Oilers and Houston Texans — but the team that was the Oilers went on to the Super Bowl as the Tennessee Titans.
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