what's the truth on these reactors, will they actually work?
Will fusion reactors work?
Jace Carter
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Isaiah Martin
No
Zachary Cook
Maybe.
Plenty of ideas but no one has yet built one which generates more energy than it takes to run it.
No known reason it's impossible but engineering problems are formidable.
Benjamin Sullivan
ITER has a good chance of creating positive Q
once someone gets positive Q it'll be a matter of making it more efficient and shrinking it. it's going to take a good bit of time but the end result is way too sweet to pass up
Matthew Hernandez
Lincoln Nelson
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>not going to even have first plasma until 2025
Levi Richardson
great idea
but a stupid one to continue
Colton Baker
More like 2035. These projects are notorious for missing deadlines. Hope i'm still alive the day we create first GW in comercial fusion reactor.
Brody Long
When something gets a pain in the ass of hard to make you know you are not in the right track. We still need a new technology thats the steeping stone so fusion follows naturally
Jace Long
Why don't we just model it based on the Defiant fusion/impulse drive system. It uses a laser initiator.
Gabriel Long
lasers are doodoo now
Thomas Fisher
Polywell will make these boondoggle tokamaks obsolete by 2025.
Aaron Williams
My grandfather is old enough to remember the first time the town got electricity and phone lines.
He's 97.
It'll happen user.
Benjamin Edwards
Holy fuck how old are you? Normal grandfather age is about 65.
Michael Gutierrez
>These projects are notorious for missing deadlines
Reminder that the reason we don't have fusion yet is because it would challenge certain vested interests, so there's basically no funding for it.
Gabriel Thomas
He3 + He3 fusion.
Harder to get going and less energy, but no neutrons and direct electricity production.
Parker Robinson
maybe if you're a third worlder
Jayden Roberts
>If we throw more money at the problem the material science problems will go away!
t.brainlet
Jackson Taylor
Throwing money at things is how most problems like this are solved.
Justin Brown
Are you stupid?
Jayden Thompson
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>being this much of a shit eating retard
your bait wont get a (You) from me
Blake Cook
>if we give people an incentive to pursue materials science/engineering we still won't attract anyone to the field
Thing is that field is so niche these days that nobody is going to bother going into it. We have to invest in that market if we want people to get into it.
Jayden Gutierrez
>will they actually work?
Not unless we make one the size of a small star.
Evan James
I mean, we know beyond a doubt that fusion works and releases energy. The only problem is substaining it at for long enough at a high enough energy level to be useful to boil some water and turn a turbine. It would be more ridiculous to think we would just abandon it unless we come up with a more viable cheap energy source first
Nathan Bennett
>Polywell
He still believes Philo T Farnsworth...
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