Forum Chat Bar & Grill

[El_Phil]

AUs from the battle Phil smiles at a FBW and gets another drink in. The toilet door swings open and the armed Plumdas amble out reporting that the plumbing has been repaired. They climb into their drop pods and return to their orbiting white van.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

NullAshton said:
Does something undergo fission, or fusion? Nope.

Plasma IS fusion. Plasma is a mass of fusing atoms. Look at the sun. (Or rather don't, otherwise we'll be forced to do without you (whoever it is I'm talking to) until the Braille keyboard arrives.....)

[Suicide Junkie]

That is totally untrue.

Atoms which have been ionized form a plasma.
IE: the electrons have been stripped off.

Plasma is a soup of nuclei and independent electrons, fusion and fission have nothing to do with it.

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The temperatures required for fusion in the sun are hot enough to make it all into plasma, but plasma does not imply nuclear reactions of any sort.

[El_Phil]

No it isn't. Not even a little bit. Your confusing two concepts there. If your doing magnetic containment fusion then yes you need a plasma. However a plasma isn't fusion.

Plasma is a ionised gas. Nothing more. Hell lightning strikes produce plasma as do arc welders. Are you claiming that we could just scrub nuclear fusion research and use a few arc welders to power the world?

[Renegade 13]

Ah hell. All we need to do is begin to actually produce significant amounts of anti-matter. Current worldwide production per year is currently miniscule, but I was reading in Astronomy magazine that a quarter of an ounce of antimatter would provide sufficient energy to power all the world's lightbulbs for 20 days. Now that is a power source!

[douglas]

Renegade 13 said:
Ah hell. All we need to do is begin to actually produce significant amounts of anti-matter. Current worldwide production per year is currently miniscule, but I was reading in Astronomy magazine that a quarter of an ounce of antimatter would provide sufficient energy to power all the world's lightbulbs for 20 days. Now that is a power source!

Problem is, it would taken even more than that much energy to make a quarter of an ounce of antimatter, and there's no way we could perfectly utilize all of the energy released without loss.

It's the same problem with using hydrogen as car fuel - it makes an excellent energy storage medium, but unless you can find large amounts of it in a usable state in nature, it's useless as an energy source. Sure, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. It is rather less abundant on Earth, and most of it is in various compounds, such as oil and water.

[Renegade 13]

True. Every energy "source" on the planet is actually utilizing solar radiation.

[Suicide Junkie]

That, or supernova shrapnel.

*A small energy disturbance appears near the bar before fizzling out.
After a few more tries, it finally blossoms into a misty blue warppoint, and the faint smell of coconuts and ocean spray begins to waft through.

[El_Phil]

Wasn't there a rule against advertising rival drinking establishments? As I recall the consequences of breaking it involved the evil doer in question, an enraged Yak, a copy of "Angling Times", a standard 300 Volt EEE cattleprod and a large baying mob.

[Suicide Junkie]

Its hardly a rival.
More like another franchise in the chain.

Besides, I merely gave Renegade the antique warppoint opener. He's the one who used it.