By Jove you have got it.
Posted on 02/09/2022 7:46:36 AM PST by Red Badger
No...............What's a few extra neutrons here and there?..........
Great Scott!
Joules are units of energy; watts are units of power (energy per unit time).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
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OK Thanks,
That will take a while to absorb. Just when I think I have a handle on Physics, this happens.
Is matter converted to energy as in fission?
No...............What’s a few extra neutrons here and there?..........
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That’s my point. They have to go somewhere...
It's understandable that this represents significant progress in mega-scale engineering, but imagine the tantrum the Luddites and Ignorati will have when Thermonuclear power becomes feasible. No reason to stop, much less pay them the attention they crave (personally, I'd like to see them tied to their precious and useless windmills). But it should be quite a show.
From the article,
“Late last century, the Joint European Torus (JET) near Oxford, UK, churned out 22 megajoules of energy in what was, at the time, a record in fusion power.”
“Now, experimental upgrades have brought the facility into line with the technology anticipated for a major international project, resulting in the production of nearly three times that amount of power.”
A joule is a very small amount of energy it equals 1 watt of energy for one second. A million joules is a megajoule, which is the equivalent of .278 kilowatt hours.
So for this story problem we are talking about 60 megajoules of energy produced, So if we multiply 60 by .278 it comes to 16.67 kilowatt hours of energy... or about $2 worth of power or less in most parts of this country. But converting this heat energy to electricity would result in much of it being lost. So I am sorry; it is not going to take your Tesla very far.
IKR?
and they’re doing their part to reduce the load by not installing parts that use more electricity... 8^)
In electrical terms, a joule equals one watt-second. This is the energy released in one second by a current of one ampere through a resistance of one ohm. It is a very tiny amount of energy. 1 megajoule is the equivalent of .278 kilowatt hours.
It seems fairly obvious that the use of terms unfamiliar to the public is meant to make this achievement seem more impressive than it really is.
Writer mentions the sun’s “blueprints”....when the gases in the sun started “fusing”, wouldn’t that have blown up the whole system, blueprints and all? Or if insufficient to blow it all up....would the mass run away ,compression wise, and become a black hole? Any astrophysicists out there?
Very good, IMHO.
A watt is one joule per second.
Who needs redundancy when the computer is trying to keep the car on the road?
How do you put money on it?
How I Made Money from Cold Fusion
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2435697/posts?q=1&;page=21
By Jove you have got it.
Cold Fusion is 25 ORDERS of MAGNITUDE better bang for the buck than Controlled Hot Fusion (CHF).
https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5917-cold-fusion-is-25-orders-of-magnitude-better-bang-for-the-buck-than-controlled-h/?postID=107287&highlight=25%2Borders%2Bof%2Bmagnitude#post107287
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I’m not a physicist; I don’t even play one on TV. $:-)
We should have commercial fusion reactors up and running within 30 years.
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