Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells

destinyland writes "A key component of a $10 billion nuclear fusion plant is vintage 2002 Indonesian coconut-shell charcoal. After a 20-year search, German researchers discovered that the coconut-shell charcoal is the best medium for 'adsorbing' waste byproducts sucked out of the thermonuclear reactor's vacuum chamber. In what will be the first fusion power facility that's commercially viable, magnetic fields will heat hydrogen isotopes to over 150 million degrees Centigrade. (Essentially, the super-hot plasma creates artificial stars.) As the article points out, 'It's not quite a Starship warp drive, but it does harness the power of the sun.'"

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In related news...

[syrinx]

The head of the project, a former professor, was heard mumbling "Gilligan won't mess it up this time."

Re:In related news...

[d3ac0n]

Wasn't that the same movie where The Professor was bringing out all of his various inventions he thought of while on the island...

and every one of them was something that had already been invented?

I think that was the same episode where Ginger was trying to get back into movies, but the kept getting offered adult movie roles. if I remember correctly, she was about to accept one because she thought that was the only kind of movies left, when Gilligan convinced her not to because he had just seen Star Wars.

Don't ask me why I remember that.

Yeah, I saw this episode

[thomasdz]

I remember this one. The professor made the Thermonuclear reactor with a bunch of coconuts, financed, of course, by the Howell's... but then Gilligan saw Ginger...got all flustered and tripped over the whole thing causing a meltdown and the Skipper's hair to glow... yeah, that's a classic episode indeed

Re:Yeah, I saw this episode

[Tablizer]

It was Maryann that always made my coconuts radioactive. Those shorts!!!!

Re:Yeah, I saw this episode

[dpilot]

They once interviewed Russell Johnson, and he had quite the succinct answer : "If you were trapped on a desert island with Ginger and Mary Ann, and your male competition was Gilligan and the Skipper, would you want to get rescued?"

Re:That's not a horse!

[grayshirtninja]

That's not the power of the sun, you're just bangin' two coconuts together!

Fixed that for ya

Harnessing the power of the sun.

[Spykk]

My vintage Casio calculator harnessed the power of the sun. This, not so much.

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Re:Use Coconut Shells?

[Adriax]

Heavily laden hopefully.

Re:Power of the sun? Artificial stars?

[batquux]

Fusion reactor? You've got two empty halves of a coconut and you're bangin' em together!

Re:Nuclear Waste?

[element-o.p.]

Well, at least TSA isn't letting you carry it through security anymore...