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1 posted on 09/09/2021 11:04:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Kevmo; Wonder Warthog; SuperLuminal; SunkenCiv

Ping!...................


2 posted on 09/09/2021 11:04:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Any decade now.


3 posted on 09/09/2021 11:06:54 AM PDT by I-ambush (If we make it we’ll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying)
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To: Red Badger
Hopefully this isn't another false alarm. There have been several announcements previously that came to nothing.

IF this IS true, for the first time in history an electric car will not be dumber than a screen door on a submarine!

4 posted on 09/09/2021 11:10:16 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Red Badger

“…the quest to build the world’s first fusion power plant that can produce more power than it consumes,..”

Seems like a very reasonable minimum expectation.


5 posted on 09/09/2021 11:11:46 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: Red Badger

Article needs a correction...strongest field by a “high temp superconductor” magnet. Stronger fields have been generated by low temp magnets.


7 posted on 09/09/2021 11:13:10 AM PDT by 6ppc (Democrats would have to climb Everest to reach the level of "scum of the earth")
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To: Red Badger

Two items that an advanced culture are cheap potable water and cheap energy.

5.56mm


13 posted on 09/09/2021 11:16:37 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Red Badger

The real question is what effect will it have on electricity costs.


19 posted on 09/09/2021 11:22:35 AM PDT by PJBankard (Heaven has strict immigration policies. Hell has open borders.)
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To: Red Badger
Unlocking SPARC: HTS Magnet for Commercial Fusion Applications
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLO3-7BRwQ

Pretty cool stuff!

20 posted on 09/09/2021 11:22:43 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Red Badger
Question is...when do the Chinese rip it off (if they haven't already)?
23 posted on 09/09/2021 11:24:11 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Red Badger

It’s still a long way from powering your toaster.


29 posted on 09/09/2021 11:33:34 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Red Badger

“power plant that can produce more power than it consumes”

Power plants don’t consume power. They consumer energy.

It’s like the difference between saying that your car gets 30 miles per gallon of gas, and your car gets 30 miles per hour per gallon of gas.


36 posted on 09/09/2021 11:57:29 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Red Badger

Anything that will get rid of these damn windmills, I’m all for it.


49 posted on 09/09/2021 12:27:03 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (MAGA, and build that wall, and buy Greenland now.)
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To: All

Fusion power is 20 years away......and always will be !

I hope that’s not true !
We shall see !


50 posted on 09/09/2021 12:28:36 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Red Badger

Water is a critical crucial finite resource that nuclear fuzziation will deplete putting the survival of the Ouagadougou red snaildarter in peril.

Can’t have it.


54 posted on 09/09/2021 12:51:54 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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The amount of power that is available is really game-changing.” The fuel used to create fusion energy comes from water, and “the Earth is full of water — it’s a nearly unlimited resource. We just have to figure out how to utilize it.”

This is a lie. In magnetically confined fusion half the fuel is Tritium which decays with a 12.5 year half-life. The amount of natural tritium is therefore negligible and to get tritium you have to breed it. Turns out based on very simple math that even with 100% recovery and conversion efficiency, tritium breeding from fusion is a losing proposition [you get back fewer tritium atoms than you start with]. So, this MIT geology professor lied.

And then there is this little problem of actually getting fusion to work on anything smaller than a nuclear bomb.

58 posted on 09/09/2021 1:59:06 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Red Badger

Add this to iron-air batteries and this could be huge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDjgSSO98VI


90 posted on 09/10/2021 8:43:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Red Badger

William Windom would be proud.


94 posted on 09/10/2021 11:51:04 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Xiden - Make America Grovel Again...)
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