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Scientists Achieved Self-Sustaining Nuclear Fusion… But Now They Can't Replicate It
Science Alert ^
| 16 August 2022
| By FELICITY NELSON
Posted on 08/17/2022 11:05:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Hate it when that happens...
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:07:11 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: Red Badger
Nobody seems to know what happened to Kaslin, but Red Badger, you’ve definitely taken her spot.
:)
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:08:56 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:08:59 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Red Badger
D'oh!
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:10:23 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Red Badger
The problem with fusion is, and has always been, that it requires more power to start and maintain it than you can get out of it. As someone once said, “fusion will always be achieved just ten or twenty years from now.”
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:10:47 AM PDT
by
Gen.Blather
(Wait! I said that out loud? )
To: Red Badger
"You don't want to be in a position where you've got to get absolutely everything just right in order to get ignition," says Chittenden. Wait. What? This guy is a scientist?
That's how thing work in the real world, bunky.
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:11:13 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Jim W N
I am honored to do so...........................😎
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:11:44 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
But Now They Can't Replicate It ... Like getting to the moon. 4k bytes 8-bit processor computers get us there, and today gigabyte processors with terabyte storage can't.
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:13:18 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:13:58 AM PDT
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Seruzawa
I think he meant that you want to achieve a place where it’s so common and conventional that it’s practically an afterthought, like turning the key in your car’s ignition to go to work.........................
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:14:06 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:15:55 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: Jim W N
Kaslin was a frustrated RINO.
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:16:45 AM PDT
by
WMarshal
(Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
To: Red Badger
“releasing 1.3 megajoules of energy for 100 trillionths of a second”
No.
releasing 1.3 megajoules of energy IN 100 trillionths of a second. Which is 100 picoseconds.
And it wasn’t 10 quadrillion watts, it was 13 quadrillion watts, or 13 terawatts.
To: Red Badger
Yes, but even then everything has to be “just right”.
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:18:26 AM PDT
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Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Seruzawa
"You don't want to be in a position where you've got to get absolutely everything just right in order to get ignition," says Chittenden. Wait. What? This guy is a scientist?
That's how thing work in the real world, bunky.
I understood what he meant. Not the best articulation of his point. He meant they need to find a way to produce conditions to start fusion that does not require such strict tolerances.
That said, it seems that you almost need a traditional fission reaction for the ignition of a fusion reaction. LOL
To: Jim W N
Scientific experiments that nobody can duplicate have a name:
Magic!
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:23:07 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:23:18 AM PDT
by
caver
To: WMarshal
Interesting. Her replies to me were often somewhat caustic.
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:23:26 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: Red Badger
When you can’t replicate an initial measurement after repeated tries, it’s time to question your first measurement.
Remember cold fusion?
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posted on
08/17/2022 11:24:50 AM PDT
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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