We achieve manage a breakthrough miniaturization of Nuclear Energy as small as a tabletop device and will soon become FALLOUT! Thoughts?
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NUCLEAR FUSION BREAKTHROUGH!
Justin Perez
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Adam Allen
I am legitimately excited to hear about this. Thank you, OP.
Anthony Moore
Meh. Fusion energy is only 30 years away. It's always only 30 years away.
Noah Thompson
Also, is that what those things were in the background of every science set in TNG?
Easton King
This could happen alot sooner user.
Henry Walker
Good eye!
Carter Richardson
Isn't the problem with Nuclear Fusion not generating the reaction, but making it a net positive in energy production?
Hunter Turner
Yeah but according to the Article they manage it!
>That’s a far cry from solving our energy crisis or even being remotely useful, but the demonstration shows that small-scale fusion is possible, contrary to what scientists expected.
Nathaniel Cruz
Yes, and self sustainment
I don't think any test fusion reactor has ran for 1 hour yet.
Sebastian Morales
>1hour
". In the experiment, the plasma field was stabilized for 16 microseconds"
Levi James
Yes. But like with mice, you can test things on them a lot quicker if you can reproduce them with ease. The article mentions that, for a long time now, people always believed you needed a building-sized thing to work with. This proves you can do it in an office or rentable storage unit.
You wouldn't test cosmetics on elephants; It would take too much time and energy to reproduce the experiments. Doing it on mice? You can have twenty today and 200 in a week.
This downsizing is good news for the "they haven't figured out how to make it work right" naysaying. Now a hundred people can be trying to make it work, the world over. Not just the three extant nuclear fusion testing labs in like two places, which are all the size of buildings. Because they are buildings.
Adrian Murphy
>mfw I want fusion power, but I also want the system to collapse in an energy crisis and destroy Globohomo
I don't know what to think....
Henry Cooper
A 12 year old kid literally did the same thing on his own in his room...
Luke Kelly
it's a damn shape. i was looking forward to global warming due to fossil fuels triggering global apocalyptic race war by 2020
Levi Cox
2030*
Christian Russell
There's more than just this Z-Pinch reactor m8
Pretty sure some of those big torus reactors have ran for a few minutes.
Parker Jones
can we somehow use this tech to kill jews?
Matthew Collins
Isaiah Turner
It's because it's chronically underfunded.
At current levels it's like trying to push your car across the continental united States. There's testing that literally can't be finished without more money. Experiments sit unused and inoperative because they don't even have enough for data storage and processing.
Mason Nelson
NOT IN MY FUCKING BACKYARD
Aaron Morgan
This... they’d rather feed niggers tons of rice and do gibs for Bonquisha to get her Africana studies degree while little Tyrone accumulates baby mommas
Robert Turner
Kind of like losing my virginity
Eli Kelly
6min 30sec runtime for a Tokamak reactor.
26sec for the Wendlestein Stellarator.
But no reactor has been built using the equations found by the SAFIRE team at UofT, their "star in a jar" experiment vaporized tungsten (boiling point of 5555C) with only 180W of power
Ayden Edwards
Sebastian Davis
What are the repercussions?
Oliver Turner
Down the rabbit hole in 3...2..
Bentley Ramirez
Longest reaction was by Korean scientists in 2016. It ran for 70 seconds.
Bentley Reyes
Now we can power AI robots that will live forever.
Thomas Butler
that's great news for camping vacationers, because it is an unlimited energy supply that fits in the trunk of a car, amirite?
Liam Hernandez
Oh boy, what the hell kind of abominations will this cause?
Ayden Harris
70 seconds is rather impressive when you consider the numbers to date.
Zachary Cruz
what a completely useless thread that explain and inform nothing about fusion.
we already could generate fusion with tabletop reactors, even if not of the contained plasma kind.
a viable technology would either require to be stable for several seconds, if not minutes, or to be possible to operate in burst where the containment requires less energy than the output.The article doesn't even explain if the kind of plasma containment they used has any hope of either being extended indefinitely or can be repeatedly recreated with less energy than outputted.
without that all we can see it as is " scientist now understand slightly better plasma containment systems".at the very best it could be "scientist now knows how to build a cheap and fast test bench to faster study plasma containment of many kinds" but the article doesn't claim the setup is highly versatile for other studies.
doesn't sound like a major breakthrough for fusion.
Chase Carter
Kek'd
Hunter Hughes
>Oh boy, what the hell kind of abominations will this cause?
You already know.....
>Fallout.
The only difference was Fallout didn't transistors (hence the retro-futurism). But we (our era) so so we're definetly becoming alot more advanced.
Probably not as wack (But cool) as Fallout sadly.
Julian Reed
Adrian Moore
>NOT IN MY FUCKING BACKYARD
You don't want your own fusion cell?
Jason Anderson
Warp Core Ejackulator
David Ortiz
Lol
Owen Lee
That specific prop is in tons of sci-fi movies/tv. The Last Starfighter is one.
Liam Rodriguez
I doubt it. The full sized reactors aren't viable for energy production. How the fuck is a table top device going to produce net energy gains.