🧵 Fusion Fag Wishful Thinking
Thorium Man at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:44:05 UTC No. 16469335
Imagine how much coal, oil and natural gas it took to create so much heat. And for what? We could've just funded Molten Salt Reactors (LFTRs & WAMSRs) since the 60's and had them perfect and widespread by now. But instead we make ourselves broke doing fusion research. The "scientists" who siphon money from taxpayers are evil grifters who constantly exaggerate their progress, worse than particle physicist fags.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 07:15:31 UTC No. 16469358
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:38:37 UTC No. 16470052
When the plasma is really hot like that, and then you inject a bunch of hydrogen, what happens?
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:58:03 UTC No. 16470074
>>16470052
nothing unless its deuterium and tritium.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:05:09 UTC No. 16470133
>>16469335
I think "fusion research" is more about improving other technologies that are peripheral to actual fusion power (which lets face it is never going to be achieved).
inertial confinement, plasma generation and control, cryogenic and vacuum pumps, laser power. you're more likely to lead to get an exotic doomsday bomb tech out of this than a source of cheap electricity.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:31:25 UTC No. 16470166
>>16470052
If you read the study, you would find out it is quasi temperature implied from indirect measurements. They technically think it was that hot, but it was a zero-mass surface.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:58:36 UTC No. 16470197
>>16470170
>we need ten billion immediately or it can never work
the fucking chutzpah man
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:11:32 UTC No. 16470295
>>16470074
>deuterium and tritium
Okay same scenario but those injected instead: what happens?
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:56:57 UTC No. 16470749
>>16470074
>nothing unless its deuterium and tritium.
Then what happens
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:00:15 UTC No. 16470752
>>16470170
What are the 'logic' on the graph
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:59:05 UTC No. 16470995
>>16469335
you're right, also there's cold fusion which requires energy still, but probably not as much as hot plasma fusion.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:47:49 UTC No. 16471132
>>16470197
Why is it chutzpah?
Research cost money, if you think its not cost-efficient then dont fund it and dont have fusion, no need to get so upset about it
>it should be cheaper
nah you cant know how much research will cost because you are literally doing something you know nothing about, thats the point of research. I was once at a research company that took 10 years to do a project the owner thought would take 1 year, and its still sort of shitty. Many times i thought he would pull out and just eat the losses but he decided it was his life mission and stopped thinking about money. He was already a millionaire and wasnt doing it for money despite the business premise
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:50:40 UTC No. 16471134
>>16471132
>you can't know how much it costs
>btw you also need to spend billions of dollars on giant prototypes that will never work and take 30 years to build so they are hopelessly obsolete when finished
Start small and stay small, dont have armies of retards hanging around doing "research"