| Gotta love science on 12:19 - Feb 9 with 824 views | blueasfook |
This process requires huge amounts of heat though. (100 million degrees to be exact).
The true holy grail of cheap abundant energy is cold fusion - which we are still some way off achieving. |  |
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| Gotta love science on 12:21 - Feb 9 with 810 views | Keno |
does this mean we can do Warp Drive yet? |  |
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| Gotta love science on 12:23 - Feb 9 with 798 views | usm |
| Gotta love science on 12:21 - Feb 9 by Keno |
does this mean we can do Warp Drive yet? |
Im booked onto the first flight to Naboo |  |
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| Gotta love science on 12:35 - Feb 9 with 769 views | Trequartista |
Lynn, that’s hotter than the sun! |  |
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| Gotta love science on 12:52 - Feb 9 with 734 views | Kentish_Tractor |
What happens to all the helium it will generate? Are we all going to be walking around with squeeky voices?
But seriously, would a massive amount of helium mess with the atmosphere? [Post edited 9 Feb 2022 12:52]
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| Gotta love science on 13:17 - Feb 9 with 685 views | Parsley |
| Gotta love science on 12:52 - Feb 9 by Kentish_Tractor |
What happens to all the helium it will generate? Are we all going to be walking around with squeeky voices?
But seriously, would a massive amount of helium mess with the atmosphere? [Post edited 9 Feb 2022 12:52]
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Helium supply has been quite unstable and expensive recently so might actually be beneficial |  | | |
| Gotta love science on 13:33 - Feb 9 with 658 views | itfc_bucks |
| Gotta love science on 12:52 - Feb 9 by Kentish_Tractor |
What happens to all the helium it will generate? Are we all going to be walking around with squeeky voices?
But seriously, would a massive amount of helium mess with the atmosphere? [Post edited 9 Feb 2022 12:52]
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I used to work there. Helium scarcity is becoming a big thing, so a clean source of it would be an amazing by-product.
The scale of this breakthrough cannot be overstated. This is a moon-landing scale change for us as a species. | | | |
| Gotta love science on 14:07 - Feb 9 with 614 views | Guthrum |
There's two questions regarding that: Was it an energy surplus (i.e. gatting out more than they put in) - which would be a major achievement - and, if so, what proportion of the total energy input does that represent? |  |
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| Gotta love science on 14:28 - Feb 9 with 599 views | itfc_bucks |
| Gotta love science on 14:07 - Feb 9 by Guthrum |
There's two questions regarding that: Was it an energy surplus (i.e. gatting out more than they put in) - which would be a major achievement - and, if so, what proportion of the total energy input does that represent? |
So, the answer is that we're still not at breakeven - best efforts is that we're approx 10 units of energy in to get 7 back, but it's effectively a question of volume and scale now, hence the next version Tokamak being built in Caderache now - it's bloody huge!
The next challenge is to not just generate more energy than it costs to operate, it's to generate *usable* energy, ie energy that can be used to drive a turbine and create electricity.
It won't come online in the next couple of years, but the next decade or so looks tough, but achieveable. | | | |
| Gotta love science on 14:37 - Feb 9 with 572 views | Cotty |
Awesome video. |  | | |
| Gotta love science on 14:38 - Feb 9 with 566 views | Cotty |
| Gotta love science on 12:19 - Feb 9 by blueasfook |
This process requires huge amounts of heat though. (100 million degrees to be exact).
The true holy grail of cheap abundant energy is cold fusion - which we are still some way off achieving. |
Cold fusion is mostly quackery/tinfoil hat stuff. Yes hot fusion is hot, but if you can figure out how to get it to be self-sustaining then you're in flavour country. | | | |
| Gotta love science on 14:40 - Feb 9 with 563 views | Cotty |
| Gotta love science on 12:52 - Feb 9 by Kentish_Tractor |
What happens to all the helium it will generate? Are we all going to be walking around with squeeky voices?
But seriously, would a massive amount of helium mess with the atmosphere? [Post edited 9 Feb 2022 12:52]
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If you let it go, it leaves the atmostphere pretty quick smart. But actually there's a big shortage, it's used in MRI scanners etc, so this would be a good byproduct to have. | | | |
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