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re: Fusion announcement tomorrow
Posted on 12/13/22 at 6:50 am to Deplorableinohio
Posted on 12/13/22 at 6:50 am to Deplorableinohio
I am perhaps a slow witted individual, but when CBS reported this on the evening news they said that this experimental fusion exercise occurred thru the use of lasers to generate the fusion. Pardon me if I am wrong, but does the lasers not require some form of energy input to be able to generate a beam? And the researcher said that if this was true that it could instantly replace all fossil fuels. I am sorry, but the last time I checked my 66 Cobra and 67 Mustang do not run on fusion reactors, but good old dinosaur squeezings. I think the jury is still out.
Posted on 12/13/22 at 7:04 am to DocYatesVA
It may not entirely replace fossil fuels, but it could conceivably power the entire electrical grid at a low cost to end users.
This post was edited on 12/13/22 at 7:06 am
Posted on 12/13/22 at 7:20 am to DocYatesVA
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I am perhaps a slow witted individual, but when CBS reported this on the evening news they said that this experimental fusion exercise occurred thru the use of lasers to generate the fusion. Pardon me if I am wrong, but does the lasers not require some form of energy input to be able to generate a beam? And the researcher said that if this was true that it could instantly replace all fossil fuels. I am sorry, but the last time I checked my 66 Cobra and 67 Mustang do not run on fusion reactors, but good old dinosaur squeezings. I think the jury is still out.
The reason this was a breakthrough because the fusion released more energy than what they put into it. So the energy used by the lazers was less than what was released.
The guy who said it could instantly replace fossil fuels is naïve and is either saying that for funding or saying it because he's also a political nutjob with an agenda.
What it could do though is power the electric grid, trains, and other things to improve our life.
Vehicles will still need fossil fuels. But not having to use fossil fuels for electricity would still be massive. This type of energy by smooshing two hydrogen atoms together would only have byproducts of energy and helium.
Posted on 12/13/22 at 8:39 am to DocYatesVA
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Pardon me if I am wrong, but does the lasers not require some form of energy input to be able to generate a beam?
Yes. They are saying the energy used by lasers to produce the fusion reaction is less than the fusion reaction energy output.
The thing that these small scale theoretical fusion reactions do not have compared to the sun is mass and therefore gravity. Mass and by direct correlation gravity is what keeps the sun's fusion reaction going.
Posted on 12/13/22 at 10:12 am to DocYatesVA
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And the researcher said that if this was true that it could instantly replace all fossil fuels.
I don't know shite about shite. But I know this is 100% false without any research.
Posted on 12/13/22 at 1:12 pm to DocYatesVA
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I am perhaps a slow witted individual, but when CBS reported this on the evening news they said that this experimental fusion exercise occurred thru the use of lasers to generate the fusion. Pardon me if I am wrong, but does the lasers not require some form of energy input to be able to generate a beam?
Actually Doc its a good question. I read in another article that the "net" positive in energy they refer to is the energy produced being more than the energy spent to utilize the lasers in making it.
Posted on 12/13/22 at 1:19 pm to DocYatesVA
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I am perhaps a slow witted individual, but when CBS reported this on the evening news they said that this experimental fusion exercise occurred thru the use of lasers to generate the fusion. Pardon me if I am wrong, but does the lasers not require some form of energy input to be able to generate a beam?
Actually Doc its a good question. I read in another article that the "net" positive in energy they refer to is the energy produced being more than the energy spent to utilize the lasers in making it.
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