So, will this thing work or not?
So, will this thing work or not?
Lucas James
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Hunter Rodriguez
no.
tohkomak and stellerator
Ryder Campbell
I'd guess that this is some sort of gizmo for smashing hydrogen atoms together.
But without the hint from I'd have been clueless.
Unless you're DELIBERATELY trying to be clickbait, a little more explanation would help.
Which particular scheme is this?
Oliver Ward
>tohkomak and stellerator
Stallarator for fusion experiments, tokamak for making electricity.
Stellarators are too complex to mass produce and actually power a significant portion of the world.
LFTRs are what we should be doing right now though. You get the unlimited power for millions of years that fusion promises except your reactors are also small and reliable enough that you can put send them to colonies in space. With LFTRs we don't need fusion until we start trying to colonize the outer solar system where it's harder to find thorium and uranium.
Jackson Brooks
>Stellarators are too complex to mass produce and actually power a significant portion of the world.
>mass produce
you realize that if you build them big enough only several hundred to maybe one or two thousand are needed. And in no way are they too complex, especially in the western countries industry should be able to construct these in sufficent numbers.
>LFTR
pop-sci fag detected. please leave reactor recommendations to the actual scientists
Jonathan Adams
>build them big enough only several hundred to maybe one or two thousand are needed
So one or two thousand isn't mass production? Also nice transmission losses you've got there.
>actual scientists
Like you?
Bentley Butler
>>LFTR
>pop-sci fag detected. please leave reactor recommendations to the actual scientists
What's wrong with it?
Grayson Long
If and when "we start trying to colonize the outer solar system" we won't need either fission or fusion reactors, just large mirrors.
Power is free. You just need collecting surface.
OK, maybe spacecraft will need nukes, but not colonies or bases.
David Garcia
>the sun is not a fusion reactor
jej
Luis Reed
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