Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 29, 2009 @03:04AM from the Gilligan-approved dept.

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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Re:Power of the sun? Artificial stars? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-29 03:13 · Score: 0, Troll

What do you think stars are? Fuckface, they're balls of fucking FUSION. Without fusion stars would be blacker than your god damn heart.
Re:Nuclear Waste? by Anomalyst · 2009-10-29 04:07 · Score: 1, Troll

things will become more brittle, and thus more prone to crack under stress
Kinda like Microsoft software.

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