Posted on 12/13/2022 7:21:09 AM PST by Eleutheria5
883 watching now Started streaming 72 minutes ago #nuclearfusion #energy #breakthrough A breakthrough in nuclear fusion could bring limitless clean energy and help the fight against climate change, experts have predicted.
On Tuesday, scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California are expected to announce that they have achieved the “holy grail” of getting more energy out of a fusion reaction than it took to trigger it.
The team reportedly used 2.1 megajoules of energy to create the conditions for the reaction, and achieved a 2.5 megajoules return – an achievement known as fusion ignition.
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The two most common methods for producing hydrogen are steam-methane reforming and electrolysis (splitting water with electricity.
As long as we have H2O, we will always have a source of hydrogen.
Can’t have this! What would we politicize?
I firmly believe fusion won’t produce energy for us until the government has a solid plan to be able to tax it and easily and readily deny it to citizens who need to learn a lesson.
Could these guys be angling for a sizeable funding increase?
Big headlines = Big cash
Agreed. But that still doesn't keep the greenies from coming up with a narrative to convince their cult followers of why we all need saving from this hydrogen-suckin' monster or whatever.
Question is how much is needed to be done it to bring to scale for commercial use.
Free beer! Tomorrow!
It does recall the first laser. It was in a huge room with tons of equipment and a monstrous power supply. When the engineers got into it they eventually developed the handheld "cat chaser" that we have so much fun with.
Here's a good article about the breakthrough.
Unfortunately, the word “nuclear” is a trigger word to the emotionally based, irretrievably ignorant Left who, when that word is uttered, stop listening and begin to panic. The Left’s hypocrisy of screaming uncontrollably about a “climate change disaster caused by carbon-based fuels” while condemning the clean energy produced by nuclear power is a clear demonstration of their ignorance, of their irrational fear, of their rejection of reality and of their complete lack of self-awareness. As we experience every time it is attempted, rational discussion with the Left is futile.
Lol…. This is a similar net gain as previous….. But the exciting non news is right on the WEF timeline. So, I am calling BS.
Used 2.1 megajoules of energy to create the conditions for the reaction, and achieved a 2.5 megajoules return.
0.4 gain
The team reportedly used 2.1 megajoules of energy to create the conditions for the reaction, and achieved a 2.5 megajoules return.
0.4 % gain
“That is a 19% net gain not a .4% gain.”
Nope. Not ‘net’. They never tell you about all the other energy that was being used. ‘Trigger energy’ is just part of the equation.
“That is a 19% net gain not a .4% gain.”
Nope. Not ‘net’. They never tell you about all the other energy that was being used. ‘Trigger energy’ is just part of the equation.
Yes, but the energy required for hydrolysis has to be considered in determining the total yield of the fusion reaction.
Right, here we go again.
Aside from their discovery nobody elected to pick up the damn Flag that was on the floor.
This does seem like a big deal, but the laser used required 300 megajoules from the grid for this experiment, so they’ve still got a big hill to climb before this is practical and useful.
There is virtually limitless hydrogen in seawater, and the energy required to separate it is dwarfed by the energy available from fusion.
It requires 142 MJ of energy to produce one kilogram of hydrogen by electrolysis. Fusion of one kilogram of hydrogen into helium releases 164,000,000,000 MJ, a little more than a billion times more.
For an investment of 30 kWh, roughly the average daily consumption per household in the U.S., would yield 36 billion kWh, enough energy to provide electricity to every home in America for more than week.
Its a 19% gain for the experiment, I doubt it produces enough excess to power the lights in the building so their is still a long way to go.
But it is real progress.
On the other hand they could start building today 4th generation nuclear plants which are safe and can use nuclear waste from older plants as fuel. Or start building Thorium based nuclear plants.
But global warming... They would rather crush our standard of living.
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