Scientist on fusion breakthrough

[mapuc]

We are getting close to eternal energy supply.

“This is a giant step toward the holy grail of energy research,” said Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City College and City University of New York. “To hit break-even, to extract more energy than you put in, and this could eventually become a game-changer.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/michio-kaku-calls-nuclear-fusion-test-at-national-lab-giant-step-toward-the-holy-grail-of-energy-research-.html

Markus

[Skybird]

We had climate warming. Now we are on the brink of planet for BBQ. :sunny: :O:

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, I sure hope they didn't make any mistakes with their calculations. Imagine if some guy pushes the start button and the whole planet erupts into a mini-sun.:doh:

4 billion years from now Martian scientist will marvel over the luck they had in being just the right distance from two suns.

[Skybird]

Maybe what you describe is what happened to Mars and Martians long time ago...? :O: Maybe they shot some escape capsules into space, and they landed on another planet to form a new beginning, and it happened to have been the Earth...? :o



Its said the first Lego brick was not small and colourful, but huge and pitchblack. :haha: We are all Lego Martian stormtrooper figures on some alien child's table.

[mapuc]

Yeah, I sure hope they didn't make any mistakes with their calculations. Imagine if some guy pushes the start button and the whole planet erupts into a mini-sun.:doh:

4 billion years from now Martian scientist will marvel over the luck they had in being just the right distance from two suns.

I thought that this temp. was created inside a special reactor and if this reactor break/explode the heat will quickly go down.

Markus

[Skybird]

Creating an artificial singularity, a black hole, may show to be a bit more than just switching off the light. :D


Anyway, Neal and me are just kidding. ;)

[Buddahaid]

I read the books. There's a big rivalry between the US and European research institutes, sabotage, murder, infidelity, bribery, money laundering, evil Chinese, etc. Oh, and the BLM start a protest movement about radiation pollution while all the while Trump is pulling the strings to make the research fail so he can cash in on oil investments he secretly made with Putin.

[mapuc]

Trump and his followers CAN'T stop the development.
The rivalry between USA, Europe and Japan is not a joke, far from it.

For me as an ordinary person it's very interesting to follow. One day we will have very cheap and inexhaustible source of energy.
Maybe not in our lifetime for those above 55 years of age.

Markus

[Buddahaid]

Trump and his followers CAN'T stop the development.
The rivalry between USA, Europe and Japan is not a joke, far from it.

For me as an ordinary person it's very interesting to follow. One day we will have very cheap and inexhaustible source of energy.
Maybe not in our lifetime for those above 55 years of age.

Markus

I was making a joke based of a couple of fiction novels although I'm sure the rivalry is real.

[Skybird]

There is a big fusion reactor in the US and an as big project in Europe. Both indeed are in very severe competition with each other. Both drive the research and development.

[Jeff-Groves]

Yeah, I sure hope they didn't make any mistakes with their calculations. Imagine if some guy pushes the start button and the whole planet erupts into a mini-sun.:doh:


You know there was a very real fear that the 1st Atomic Bomb would do just that!
But they pushed the button anyway!
:o

[Catfish]

If i had a black hole in my house, first thing would be to cancel the garbage disposal service.

[Jeff-Groves]

I have a black hole that sucks money out of my bank account.
I call her Nancy.
:haha:

[mapuc]

I have a black hole in my pocket, money seems to disappear into nothingness.

Markus

[Jeff-Groves]

I'm pretty sure the people that make washing machines and dryers have the technology for Black holes!

Where the hell do all those missing socks go?
:hmmm:

[mapuc]

I'm pretty sure the people that make washing machines and dryers have the technology for Black holes!

Where the hell do all those missing socks go?
:hmmm:

One of life's biggest mystery

Markus

[Catfish]

I'm pretty sure the people that make washing machines and dryers have the technology for Black holes!
Where the hell do all those missing socks go?
:hmmm:
The washing machine god demands offerings and sacrifices in form of socks.

[Skybird]

The washing machine god demands offerings and sacrifices in form of socks.
What a perverse stinker.

[vienna]

You know there was a very real fear that the 1st Atomic Bomb would do just that!
But they pushed the button anyway!
:o


Back in the 80s, I read an article about the development of the A-Bomb and it had quotes from some of the scientists involved in the project; not only was there a fear of an out of control chain reaction, there were actual calculations pointing to that being a very real outcome; some of the scientists set up a betting pool just prior to the first test to see who could correctly predict the yield and effect of the first blast...




<O>

[Platapus]

I'm pretty sure the people that make washing machines and dryers have the technology for Black holes!

Where the hell do all those missing socks go?
:hmmm:


You don't understand


One of your socks is not missing


You now have an extra sock


:o

(cue dramatic music)

[Sean C]

If we add up the mass of all these missing/new socks, I bet we'll arrive at the amount necessary to account for dark matter.