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NASA Doubles Down On Nuclear Fusion Ambitions
OilPrice.Com ^ | 28 September 2020 | Jon Lesage

Posted on 09/29/2020 10:05:36 AM PDT by amorphous

A team of NASA researchers seeking a new energy source for deep-space exploration missions, recently revealed a method for triggering nuclear fusion in the space between the atoms of a metal solid.

Their research was published in two peer-reviewed papers in the top journal in the field, Physical Review C, Volume 101 (April, 2020): “Nuclear fusion reactions in deuterated metals” and “Novel nuclear reactions observed in bremsstrahlung-irradiated deuterated metals.”

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: fissionnuclearpower; fusion; nasa
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1 posted on 09/29/2020 10:05:36 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Hey, it’s only 30 years away!....................


2 posted on 09/29/2020 10:06:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: amorphous

Good....my 1980 Master’s paper outlined a path to have it by 2005......


3 posted on 09/29/2020 10:08:26 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no merit in compromising with the Devil.)
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To: G Larry

4 posted on 09/29/2020 10:09:55 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: Red Badger

30 years, that sucks. It’s only 5 years when we will have the cure for Cancer and Baldness and renewables will be competitive with fossil fuels.


5 posted on 09/29/2020 10:09:57 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Red Badger

6 posted on 09/29/2020 10:11:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: amorphous
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand..


7 posted on 09/29/2020 10:13:15 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: amorphous

Oh, man. I wish they hadn’t announced this. Now the price on bremsstrahlung-irradiated deuterated metals is gonna go sky high. You thought toilet paper and ammo were bad...


8 posted on 09/29/2020 10:13:41 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: amorphous

See https://www.safireproject.com/

They are already fusing atoms in a plasma using electrical charge. The plasma self organizes. They have investors who vetted the technology. Their anode is covered with elements not present prior to use and they are getting a seven to one energy amplification. The debunkers are theoretical since they have not tried to replicate these experiments.


9 posted on 09/29/2020 10:15:20 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: amorphous

I like to say “bremsstrahlung”.


10 posted on 09/29/2020 10:15:33 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: qam1

Flying cars are only 10 years away.....................again.............


11 posted on 09/29/2020 10:18:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: cicero2k

Even if it works, it can’t be used.
All employees are White males, thus it is a systemically racist invention.


12 posted on 09/29/2020 10:18:50 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Billthedrill
The Trump Administration Has Created a “Once in a Lifetime” Opportunity For Resources Investors

"I’m talking about things like cobalt, rhodium, manganese, titanium and more [bremsstrahlung-irradiated deuterated metals, I presume]..."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-09-29/trump-administration-has-created-once-lifetime-opportunity-resources-investors

13 posted on 09/29/2020 10:19:06 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

This sounds like a version of what Pons and Fleischmann claimed to have discovered in 1989 — and were widely ridiculed for.


14 posted on 09/29/2020 10:20:33 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: cicero2k

They’ve been doing this for years, but no one has been able to get more energy out than is put into fusing the atoms, other than through some fission process.


15 posted on 09/29/2020 10:29:18 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Ironically, as a political society, it will never be developed. We prefer renewables, distributed to the area needed. We’ll store months of electricity to be used later, locally.

That said, the Safire guys say they can produce remediation of nuclear waste, so that problem can be finally put away.


16 posted on 09/29/2020 10:30:53 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: beethovenfan

I like to say “figgy pudding.” No, wait. That’s Uncle Joe Biden’s line.


17 posted on 09/29/2020 10:32:21 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato)
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To: Rockingham
More akin to what Brilliant Light Power, Inc. (BLP), formerly BlackLight Power was working on, maybe?

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

18 posted on 09/29/2020 10:33:22 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Had my dog deuterated couple of years ago.


19 posted on 09/29/2020 10:35:02 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: cicero2k

The current FAD does seem to be self-destruction by turning our back on God and technology. I don’t think the ones embracing it can comprehend the consequences.


20 posted on 09/29/2020 10:38:28 AM PDT by amorphous
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