View Single Post
Old 12-06-2007, 05:51 PM   #8 (permalink)
The_Heretic
Master of Quill-Fu
 
The_Heretic's Avatar
 
Space Invaders Champion!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Taylorsville, UT [stuck in the 20th century].
Posts: 7,098
My Mood:
Blog Entries: 4
Thanks: 33
Thanked 131 Times in 98 Posts
The_Heretic is a famous PG member
Quote:
Originally Posted by jowey View Post
They have produced fusion (not the bomb either), so far as I understand it has not been sustainable and/or generating more energy than that put in.

http://www.fusor.net/
http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/
http://fire.pppl.gov/
The Los Alimos fusion experiments are problematic not because of the fact fusion is reproducible, but that the process isn't yet practical. It takes them a day or more to reset all the equipment, recahrge the capcitors that run the megawatt rated X-ray lasers [256 in all] and then precisely load their deuterium-tritium sample into the fusion chamber. For that reactor to match a regular nuclear reactor they'd need to generate 80 fusion events a day and yet they can- baely manage one a day.

That's why I think there's got to be an easier way via "cold" fusion.
__________________
"Enough!!" -so rang Barack Obama's voice off the walls of Mile High Stadium
The_Heretic is online now   Top Reply With Quote