Just one of many possible designs........................
Posted on 05/06/2024 9:16:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Heat turns water to steam.
Steam drives turbines..................
thank you, i dint know it was hooked to anything other than a meter...
It’s made of unobtanium, too....................
“ However, it’s a lot of private and government money flowing into the research what would basically be an unlimited source of energy, so why not continue researching it.”
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I agree with continuing research but no one should do their energy planning thinking we’re “on the brink”.
That’s right it could take 50 years to master the technology, a lot of very smart people are putting billions into research and if the technology is ever really mastered it would be a quantum leap in energy production
figures...
a device internally clad in tungsten,
An incandescent bulb typically consists of a glass enclosure containing a tungsten filament. An electric current passes through the filament, heating it to a temperature that produces light.
Just one of many possible designs........................
Velly Intelestingk...I don't know, but I've been told fusion in captivity requires around 100 million Celsius get started.
thank you...
You make a great point! I hadn’t considered it but you’re exactly right.
Ohhh, and the MIC! With no need to fight over oil in the middle east, what would they do to justify their huge budgets?
The problem isn’t creating fusion the problem is containing it so it can be used. A hydrogen bomb is ‘fusion’. Can we contain pieces of the Sun? Nope, that level of heat burns through everything. I just don’t get this one Civ...
Toroidal magnetic containment attempts to confine the reaction to an area not in direct contact with the machine. A longterm problem for any eventual working device will be that neutrons are released by fusion and aren't confined by electric or magnetic fields. Neutrons degrade whatever they run into, over time leaving the tokamak (for example) radioactive. There's also a need for care taken to select the materials, to avoid the high temps and neutron bombardment from starting an uncontrolled fission reaction. Yeah, I want a fusion reactor in my house. :^)
i have not seen any evidence they are near to commercializing this. I believe that in the end it will take a series of fusion chambers and the reaction will need to migrate from the start up tokamak to the ignition tokamak and then to the energy generation tokamak and so on through cool down and eventual restart in the start up.
Thanks for the answer Civ...
I have no real idea how nuclear fusion will eventually work if the technology can be harnessed but I do know a lot of money and countries are researching it and if the technology is ever developed it will be a quantum leap forward in energy production
“could”, “might”, “possibly”........yawn
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