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Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
New Atlas ^ | February 21, 2020 | Loz Blain

Posted on 02/22/2020 2:19:41 PM PST by Jonty30

"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected.

(Excerpt) Read more at newatlas.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202002; australia; boron; fission; fusion; fusionreactor; hbr; hydrogen; hydrogenboron; reactors; science; stringtheory
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To: gnarledmaw

Not sure I understand you, but I wouldn’t bet against Musk. But AFIAK he’s still with the fission/solar/wind camp. Which is fine by me.


21 posted on 02/22/2020 2:59:03 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: Wonder Warthog

Ping.


22 posted on 02/22/2020 3:00:03 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Jonty30

Direct energy without a heat exchanger? Color me very skeptical.


23 posted on 02/22/2020 3:03:43 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: TexasGator

Re: “Nuclear reactions produce many times the energy of electron state changes...”

Thanks for clarifying that.

However, it’s my understanding (as a philosophy major) that photons are the only heat carrier, and you can’t get photons without “electron state changes.”

Any help on this is appreciated!


24 posted on 02/22/2020 3:04:03 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: gnarledmaw

Them froggie chicas will just have to become fluid.


25 posted on 02/22/2020 3:06:49 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: gnarledmaw
Then how will the girl frogs find mates?

Unless we solve that problem we could be looking at a world without frogs. Stop the project now!

There are a couple of minor milestones yet ahead. One is to manage to produce power. The second is to manage to produce enough power to keep the lasers running. The third will be to figure out a way to keep the flies from taking over the planet in the absence of frogs. Science isn't easy.

26 posted on 02/22/2020 3:09:01 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Jonty30

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

Discussion on aneuronic fusion
I suspect these researchers are digging for research dollars


27 posted on 02/22/2020 3:09:48 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Jonty30

This is about the 20th “breakthrough” from yester years E-Cat to this beauty, but I think I’ll keep my Predator gas powered generator around for a while yet.


28 posted on 02/22/2020 3:09:55 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet
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To: zeestephen
"However, it’s my understanding (as a philosophy major) that photons are the only heat carrier, and you can’t get photons without “electron state changes.”",

E=MC2

For example, in a fission, you get several high energy particles along with gamma rays.

The kinetic energy is converted to heat energy as the interact with surroundings.

29 posted on 02/22/2020 3:11:45 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Jonty30

This is great news. With hydrogen-boron, we are finally just 15 years from practical fusion power!


30 posted on 02/22/2020 3:13:01 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Jonty30

“hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected”


usually a small startup looking for positive press.


31 posted on 02/22/2020 3:20:10 PM PST by RBStealth
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To: Paladin2
Where is my Mr. Fusion?

Post 5.

32 posted on 02/22/2020 3:27:17 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Fred Nerks

hydrogen-boron fusion technology ( Hybofutech )

The Australians are making “Back to the Future” entirely possible. Watch for the flux capacitor from Oz!


33 posted on 02/22/2020 3:32:56 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

millennials like the idea of thorium reactors and see that as the future. They might just jump behind this with both feet.
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After they get their student loans forgiven.

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after they get out of Bernie’s re-education camps


34 posted on 02/22/2020 3:39:11 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Jonty30
"It would solve a ton of problems "

Maybe even 10-billion tons of problems?

Of course, without reading the article yet, maybe their sustained reaction has progressed 10-billion times from 0.000000000000000000001 doodads per second all the way to 0.00000000001 doodads per second...

35 posted on 02/22/2020 3:40:53 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Monty22002

Im not sure I understand me either. That is to say that both the posting of the article and a number of responses on threads including my last here keep changing length and cutting out random parts.

Anyway, as to the rest, which makes more sense if youre seeing all of my last post, hes moving along. SpaceX and all of that. The video I linked to is so important that everyone in the US needs to see it. All of the technologies we have presently and most of the proposed are as backwards and archaic as banging rocks together. We are on the threshold of world changing events.


36 posted on 02/22/2020 3:44:00 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Jonty30

Was it 20 years ago that those Cold Fusion guys made a big splash but couldn’t replicate?


37 posted on 02/22/2020 3:44:06 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: SuperLuminal
OK... Now I've read the fascinating article (they always are)...
The major thing, so far, that I take from this is that they are approaching the problem via "diversity"... They are using a lot of transgender helium atoms...
38 posted on 02/22/2020 3:46:10 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: zeestephen
However, it’s my understanding (as a philosophy major) that photons are the only heat carrier, and you can’t get photons without “electron state changes.”

Electron state changes (like from chemical reactions) produce low-energy photons (like in the infrared thru UV range of the spectrum).

Nuclear reactions directly produce high-energy photons (x-ray thru gamma ray). Nuclear reactions also produce fast-moving particles, and motion of matter at the atomic level is what heat is.

39 posted on 02/22/2020 3:46:26 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: SuperLuminal
Of course, without reading the article yet, maybe their sustained reaction has progressed 10-billion times from 0.000000000000000000001 doodads per second all the way to 0.00000000001 doodads per second...

Lots of people have produced fusion reactions. The trick is, producing SUSTAINED fusion, which reliably and sustainably releases more energy than is consumed from triggering the reaction.

40 posted on 02/22/2020 3:49:05 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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