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The plan: build a small sun and solve the world’s thirst for a guilt-free energy source.
The problem: designing a container strong enough to withstand the kinds of temperatures and pressures found inside the sun.
Enter the University of Saskatchewan physics department, which houses Canada’s only magnetic fusion reactor.
“This is the big Holy Grail. This is making energy with no pollution, and less amount of supply. No fight around everybody to get the fuel, because it’s available from the sea,” said Michel Laberge, founder and chief scientific officer at Burnaby-based General Fusion.
The company aims to develop the technology for a reactor that would fuse hydrogen into helium in a rapid flash lasting ten millionths of a second.
Doing that requires extreme conditions, like million-degree temperatures and crushing pressure. The resulting plasma can interact with the reactor wall, and that’s not good, Laberge said.
originally posted by: rickymouse
We could use a two sun solar system, let them experiment. The prophesies say that the sun will someday destroy mankind.
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Electrolysis of water – Using electricity, it is easy to split water molecules to create pure hydrogen and oxygen. One big advantage of this process is that you can do it anywhere. For example, you could have an Electrolyser in your garage producing hydrogen from tap water, and you could fuel your lawnmower, leaf blower, car, etc. with that hydrogen.
WHY? Hydrogen is safe and as stable as commonly used household /consumer fuels. Hydrogen is the smallest element with amazing characteristics:
It is light, it disperses rapidly
It does not plume
It does not leach
It is stable in ambient temperatures
originally posted by: ShadeWolf
a reply to: rickymouse
No polluting byproducts either, just helium.
A fission "primary" (like any other nuclear bomb, very similar to the Fat Man device dropped on Nagasaki) fires first, which triggers a brief fusion reaction in a "secondary" package that greatly boosts the explosive yield. Exactly how the fission reaction triggers the fusion element is still heavily classified, for obvious reasons.
originally posted by: caskatoon
a reply to: stormbringer1701
I wonder if they've begun testing the metals, I'd assume that if General Fusion is supplying the metals, especially if they use a rare/uknown combination of metals if they will share their findings. Or if there are any patents relating to this process that may be a brick wall to their research...
Or are the parts you mentioned simply used for the reaction process?
originally posted by: stormbringer1701
i am pretty sure that one of these small fusion groups will actually achieve above break even fusion before the big boys at ITER or NIF. Also several of these little guys are doing the crowd funding route.
originally posted by: bigx001
originally posted by: stormbringer1701
i am pretty sure that one of these small fusion groups will actually achieve above break even fusion before the big boys at ITER or NIF. Also several of these little guys are doing the crowd funding route.
they have achieved break-even, they have not been able to produce sustained fusion. how do you get the waste byproducts out and fuel in, all the while maintaining fusion. it doesn't take much for it to crash