Tollorin
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02 Apr 2013, 2:05 pm
Something compact enough for transport it in a truck! (Or use it in a big spaceship. 
) Of course, it's still only plan for it.
http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2013/lockheed-martin-outlines-plans-for-nuclear-fusion-reactor/
02 Apr 2013, 2:21 pm
) Of course, it's still only plan for it. http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2013/lockheed-martin-outlines-plans-for-nuclear-fusion-reactor/
A cold fushion reacter that you can carry around in a briefcase?
Right!
April Fools was two days ago!
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02 Apr 2013, 2:25 pm
) Of course, it's still only plan for it. http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2013/lockheed-martin-outlines-plans-for-nuclear-fusion-reactor/
A cold fushion reacter that you can carry around in a briefcase?
Right!
April Fools was two days ago!
Not cold fusion, millions Kelvin/Celsius hot fusion, and not compact to the point of being in a briefcase. Also, the article has been publishe the 20th february.
02 Apr 2013, 2:37 pm
02 Apr 2013, 2:46 pm
I do not think it will work, fusion reactors never seem to work ! From the discovery of nuclear fission to the first fission reactor took about ten years. While decades after the discovery of fusion (things like the Ivy Mike test) no one has worked out how to make a fusion machine which releases more energy from fusion than is put in to make the machine turn on.
The fusion people might hate me but I will say that I think that fusion reactors are perfect machines for flushing money down the drain.
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02 Apr 2013, 2:52 pm
02 Apr 2013, 3:07 pm
What is a sigworthy quote ?
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02 Apr 2013, 3:13 pm
02 Apr 2013, 4:44 pm
) Of course, it's still only plan for it. http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2013/lockheed-martin-outlines-plans-for-nuclear-fusion-reactor/
A cold fushion reacter that you can carry around in a briefcase?
Right!
April Fools was two days ago!
Not cold fusion, millions Kelvin/Celsius hot fusion, and not compact to the point of being in a briefcase. Also, the article has been publishe the 20th february.
There is no verifiable case (as yet) of a working controlled fusion reactor that can put out more power than is necessary to crank it up.
Do you have a reference to this in a reputable engineering or physics journal?
ruveyn
02 Apr 2013, 4:45 pm
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03 Apr 2013, 10:27 am
OK Ruveyn, you have a good point as the gravity confinement plasma machines such as SUN-1 do maintain a high fusion output. But I understand machine as being a man made device.
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03 Apr 2013, 11:13 am
04 Apr 2013, 1:58 am
...until you try to put it in a box and make it do what you want.
If we get to the point where we can engineer a box around the sun, making it do what we want will be absolutely trivial in comparison. We'll say, "Sun, obey our commands! Keep shining!", and it will obey.
In fact, I can make the sun do that right now. "Sun, I command you to continue shining!" Hey, look, it worked!
04 Apr 2013, 9:21 am
