Posted on 02/22/2020 2:19:41 PM PST by Jonty30
"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected.
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Wow!
No it wouldn't.
The anti-human anthropogenic climate change crowd would invent some imaginary thing it was doing to the environment that would prevent its use.
There real goal is to repeal the industrial/technical revolution and eliminate as many human beings as possible.
Revolutions always come as a function of a drop in the cost of energy.
The big deal in nuclear energy isn’t what kind of process lights the fire under a boiler but rather what process directly converts all the electons thrown off directly into electricity.
Whenever they figure out how to do that the cost of producing electricity will drop from .05 - .06 to .01-.02. That’s the revolution.
“The big deal in nuclear energy isn’t what kind of process lights the fire under a boiler but rather what process directly converts all the electons thrown off directly into electricity.”
That takes energy; it does not give off energy.
Nuclear reactions produce many times the energy of electron state changes,
I wouldn’t be so sure. The modern millennial hippies have real problems with some of the ideas promoted by the boomer hippies. One big point of disagreement is nuclear tech. The boomer hippies were entirely against it but the millennials like the idea of thorium reactors and see that as the future. They might just jump behind this with both feet.
Well, that’s one more problem solved. I’m a bit skeptical, though, about the part where they say it also cures baldness and the corona virus.
After they get their student loans forgiven.
I wish they would. Advanced Gen3+ and soon Gen4 Uranium reactors are almost entirely safe and cost effective. Thorium possibly more so. That’s the real 21st century energy provider. Fusion’s gonna wait until the 22st I’m sure.
I would like to see Elon Musk get in on this action.
Now, if I had a cent for every one of these really good sounding ideas,
that have come along in my lifetime and never worked, I'd have tens of
dollars in the bank.
d":^)
It would solv the muzzie problem for sure.
Love to see the savages try and eat their oil. Imagine their crude sales cut by 80%+-. I hope I live to see it.
After reading the article Im entirely against it. What about helium pollution? The frogs wont just be turning gay, the remaining strait ones will be croaking in squeaky voices! Then how will the girl frogs find mates?
You could keep your balloons and squeaky voices.
Let me know when it's working a million times better than expected.
I really, really want this to be true.
Unfortunately, after 70 years of hot fusion research, 30 years of cold fusion research, and 70 years of alternative fission research, we are still “just a decade away” from solving our energy problems.
Good luck - but, deeply skeptical.
“30 years of cold fusion research, “
30 years of cold fusion scams
Where is my Mr. Fusion?
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