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April 28th, 2005, 09:21 AM
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Re: OT: nuclear fusion in the palm of your hand
Oh, right, New York City is the target of weather disasters. Paris is always the one hit by a big asteroid, right?
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April 28th, 2005, 09:29 AM
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Re: OT: nuclear fusion in the palm of your hand
Asteroids are unreliable little buggers. They'll strike anywhere. That's why they were kicked out of the natural disasters union. Serves them right.
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April 28th, 2005, 10:07 AM
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Re: OT: nuclear fusion in the palm of your hand
So if Nuclear energy (well-weapons) spawns Godzilla for 50 years of sci-fi movies, what will fusion energy spawn, eh? Will we get a new movie monster craze, or will Godzilla go to a fusion reaction? Inquiring minds want to know...
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April 28th, 2005, 10:12 AM
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Re: OT: nuclear fusion in the palm of your hand
I suspect something vauge and derivate in the style of MechaZilla or Mothra.
Sadly as fusion reactors don't detonate and spew radiation everywhere the options are limited.
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April 28th, 2005, 11:44 AM
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Re: OT: nuclear fusion in the palm of your hand
Let's see... how long was it before "cold fusion" was found to be due to sloppy research and wishful thinking? Any bets as to when this one meets the same fate?
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April 28th, 2005, 11:50 AM
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Re: OT: nuclear fusion in the palm of your hand
Well as this seems to be unpractical and inefficient I'd say it probably happened. Cool something down, then heat it up again and then you get a few hundred neutrons a second. Any commercial reactor needs millions, apparently. Probably happened, but also not vitally important in the scheme of things.
Just wait for the Torus research boys to sort something out, if they ever get round to building it of course.
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April 28th, 2005, 12:14 PM
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Re: OT: nuclear fusion in the palm of your hand
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General Woundwort said:
Let's see... how long was it before "cold fusion" was found to be due to sloppy research and wishful thinking? Any bets as to when this one meets the same fate?
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"Cold fusion" claims by Dr. Pons were not able to be reproduced by other scientists who were attempting to validate his theory. They also stretched (some say violated) some known laws of physics. For these reasons the idea was rejected.
This method of fusion is reproducable and relies on well known mechanics. Because of these reasons, I doubt that this method of fusion will have any trouble being accepted as real. Being able to produce usable power safely, cheaply, etc... that has yet to be shown.
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