Posted on 02/09/2016 1:41:50 PM PST by Reeses
Now how can you even keep a thermometer from melting when you try to take the temperature. It would melt the glass and vaporize the mercury...
No, but you CAN get a “Crossed Stream” plasma arcs USB rechargeable cigarette lighter that’s pretty cool...
LOL! Bingo!
dear fred,
re:
“Lessening the electromagnetic containment will more likely kill the reaction. Once the plasma hits the wall, it will immediately cool below the threshold required to overcome the Coulomb barrier. Of course the wall of the containment torus will experience some significant erosion.”
I’m not so sure. You lessen the electromagnetic field, and it can be a ‘loosening of the noose’, so to speak.
dear diogenes,
Please remember:
A thermonuclear bomb is a fission/fusion reaction, with no real containment vessel.
dear afreebird,
re:
“Wouldn’t it result in a US syndrome?”
AND THE MAN WINS A CUPIE DOLL!!
Fusion power has been 20 years in the future for most, if not all, of my lifetime. I’m over 50.
Inertial containment. Long enough to let the reaction build up to a substantial energy release.
Nobody is going to stuff that much fuel into a reactor all at once, and even if they tried, it would cause a breach in containment before it could ever work up to a bomb grade energy release.
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