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Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future
NightWulf writes "The BBC reports that Europe and Japan are currently looking to host a new JET power plant. This new plant creates plasma, which is akin to creating a star on Earth. Interesting to note that 1kg of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000kg of fossil fuels."
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!
...would wipe Europe off the map.
:-p
Can I nominate France to host the project?
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In the same sense, my logging on to slashdot today is akin to designing TCP/IP.
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
This is coming from the "land of the rising sun"?
Well taking that you get left with helium its obvious that a by product will be a market for baloons
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Slashdot has a strange fascination with potential energy solutions. Ah...so much energy wasted thinking about potential energy.
I would have thought that decision to build the project in Japan would have been unanimous. How else could Gozilla be resurrected?
Chewie does not get a medal. Come on, George. Can a Wookie get a medal?
I'm guessing at least 9,999,999 kg...
1kg of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000kg of fossil fuels
I bet there are some dinosaurs turning over in their graves right now.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Fusion researchers have said for two decades that they will get it to work in 20 years, and that statement is still valid.
So for once a Slashdot headline is actually factually accurate. Fusion is "in the future", as it has been for the last 30 years and will be for the next 30 and the 30 after that. Who remembers Tokamak?
On the other hand, I don't know enough about it to confidently say it's crap. So - anyone out there able to tell me what, exactly, this "kg of fusion fuel" is made up of? And, if possible, provide support/debunking for the 10,000,000x as much energy claim?
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
You'd have to be pretty damn horny. 'Nuff said.
Nope - helium isn't toxic.
But helium at 100,000,000 degrees celsius might have slightly different effect if you tried to use it to make yourself sound like a munchkin...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Only on slashdot can you be called an idiot if you don't know anything about nuclear fusion.
You say that, but just try putting one in a microwave and you might change your opinion! ;)
"Studies have shown that people who eat peanuts live longer than those who do not eat."
> One kilogram of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000 kg of fossil fuel.
No no, we all know that different fossil fuels have different efficiencies by weight.. e.g. a kilogram of pure natural gas produces a different amount of energy when burned than a kilogram of kerosene.
So the REAL question is, how many Libraries of Congress would we have to burn to generate equivalent energy.
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BUT: We are now only nine turns away from being able to BUILD a fusion plant. Next I think we should go after 'Future Technology I'.
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
Would you want this venting on Wall Street?
Better there than many other places I can think of.
http://xkcd.com/386/
I don't know, but if you think it even approaches 10000000 kilograms of fossil fuels, you need to get your head checked.
Finally, somebody has come up with a factory that can create the plasma needed for all of those big, flatscreen TV's. I just hope this drives the price down.
There are 01 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and me.
9 turns ago I was told by my Science Advisor I'd have fusion in 9 turns!
I suppose the Compressed Gas Association is spouting Urban Legends too.
Go tell the parents of this kid that inhaling helium is perfectly harmless.
Afterwards, you can talk to the parents of this other kid and tell them that helium-related deaths are an urban legend.
Feel free to read this first person account of what it's like to experience an urban legend.
Next time you post on slashdot, make sure you know what the hell you are talking about, and that you at least know how to spell "poisonous".
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We measure energy in kilograms now? This is so confusing. Can we please switch back to a standard unit, like the bomb dropped at Hiroshima or football fields?
Wasn't Megatron trying to collect energy cubes to go back to the Transformers home planet?
Hmm, sounds like a new Slashdot poll.
First to be completed: