Posted on 12/24/2020 8:31:59 PM PST by BenLurkin
ping
Cool.
Oh...I mean hot. Really really hot.
How does this square with global warming? Will backers of the green new deal push for a declaration of war on South Korea?
I’ve been looking for a portable space heater......
The plasma is kept constrained in a small space by strong electro magnets. So it is not inside a container made of material.
And then destroy the Earth?
Prediction: Humanity will run LFTRs for a hundred years before fusion becomes the primary source of power.
The particles are confined by powerful magnetic field lines around which they spiral in tight helical paths. Also, the pressure of the plasma is low; it exists in what is essentially a very good vacuum. Recent K-Star literature gives the peak density as about 7x1019 particles per cubic meter, which sounds like a lot until you realize that the density of air at normal atmospheric pressure is about 2.6x1025 particles per cubic meter.
Thus, the density of the 100-million-degree plasma is roughly one-millionth of that of the air we breathe. In other words, there isn't much of it there.
A gas at 100 million degrees does radiate some pretty high-energy photons, hard X-rays, actually close to gamma rays in their energy content. Those pose the real danger, along with neutrons generated by any nuclear fusion events that occur.
If this were not shielded and contained, is this another weapon of mass destruction?
Norway may be interested in that artificial sun thing.
There are months in their part of the globe where it remains very dark with no day break.
Pretty sure if we turn the earth into a sun, that global warming will increase significantly.
Silly me. I thought KSTAR made audio tapes of Korean pop hits.
Singing “Hot, Hot, Hot” and “It’s a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”. In Korean, of course.
A Korean named Sun.
Kinda figures.
There could be a home on Pluto if that artificial sun thing really gets going.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Makers
The Sweeney on the sun and a lady named Iris-
“The world does not revolve around your body. This bloke Galileo proved it, it goes around the sun.” (Night Out)
I assume this was North Korea, right? I mean only a socialist country could make this kind of scientific progress.
i dint know magnetism could contain heat... and the tokamak containing the mag-field is metal
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