Scientists Aim to Create a Tiny Man-Made Star!

Scientists Aim to Create a Tiny Man-Made Star!

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While it has seemed an impossible goal for nearly 100 years, scientists now believe that they are on brink of cracking one of the biggest problems in physics by harnessing the power of nuclear fusion, the reaction that burns at the heart of the sun.

In the spring, a team will begin attempts to ignite a tiny man-made star inside a laboratory and trigger a thermonuclear reaction.

Its goal is to generate temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius and pressures billions of times higher than those found anywhere else on earth, from a speck of fuel little bigger than a pinhead. If successful, the experiment will mark the first step towards building a practical nuclear fusion power station and a source of almost limitless energy.

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There is hope for the world yet! Fusion technology, that is efficient, has been in the making for years. Scientists are now trying to wrap their hands around a viable solution! If they succeed they will produce, for just a fraction of a second for now, an output of energy 10 times that of the input. Amazing new technology, let us hope we here more in the coming years.

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So we have a sun on one side of the earth's surface . . . and a black hole on the other . . .

this is going to be interesting

Alright. Now where's Peter Parker?

Sorry for the one liner.

It'll all end in tears I tells ya!

Don't say I didn't warn you kids!

[edit on 31-12-2008 by Steel77]

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Semper

Thanks semper I should have read that, my mistake.

-steel77 Why you say it will be dangerous? I would not necessarily rule out danger but I do not think that with proper procedures it is all bleak.

-xxpigxx Yeah the LHC should be an interesting topic when they get that thing fixed up sometime next year. I personally think the tiny man-made star is more interesting though, not all doom and gloom when it comes to trying to find an alternate energy source.

[edit on 31-12-2008 by LoneInDarkness]

Why does this sound like one of the bad Sci-Fi movies where everybody says it's perfectly safe then BOOM!

The third planet in the Sol system is believed to of once sustained life. No telling if intelligent life ever existed there though.

reply to post by LoneInDarkness


Already been done at a fraction of the cost. It was an extension of the Farnsworth Fusor, the guy who's invention, the television, was ripped off by corporate monopolists.

In this case though it took the brilliant work of Dr. Brussard and his colleagues to iron out the technical difficulties.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Naturally the funding was cut off. You don't want to disturb the oil monopolists or the big fusion researchers either.

Why don't they build these facilities in the middle east?

That's where the money (from oil) is to pay for it.

And if it turns out as some have predicted as a big explosion - well, at least one of the world's problems is solved.

I think this technology might be delayed, like you guys said, because of the monopolistic control over the oil industries. The only way to force this technology into the system is for the general public to get involved. Thats my two cents on that issue.

Originally posted by LoneInDarkness

Scientists Aim to Create a Tiny Man-Made Star!

www.telegraph.co.uk

While it has seemed an impossible goal for nearly 100 years, scientists now believe that they are on brink of cracking one of the biggest problems in physics by harnessing the power of nuclear fusion, the reaction that burns at the heart of the sun.

In the spring, a team will begin attempts to ignite a tiny man-made star inside a laboratory and trigger a thermonuclear reaction.

Its goal is to generate temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius and pressures billions of times higher than those found anywhere else on earth, from a speck of fuel little bigger than a pinhead. If successful, the experiment will mark the first step towards building a practical nuclear fusion power station and a source of almost limitless energy.

(visit the link for the full news article)

And I here I was concerned when they were going to start up the LHC, now people want to create their own stars? Arent there enough stars in Hollywood?

Be interesting to see how many people "panic" over this...

This has been done before, don't see what the big deal is.

People make it a big deal, too many people now a days are afraid of new things. They want to conform and never change. Not that all change is good but this could really help the world, if it is ever allowed to out do the oil companies that is...

reply to post by SevenThunders


Except that it shares absolutely nothing in common with the fusor in terms of the principles of it's operation, and it stands a chance of actually being useful for something besides a compact gamma ray source? The fusor is an amazing little device, but it isn't a viable platform for a power-producing reactor. This kind of inertial confinement reactor may be. Dr. Bussard may well have had a workable concept before he died, but it was certainly less far along than this machine is, or any of the tokamaks, and would have taken decades to get working. People tend to publish wildly optimistic reports when they're pushing their propositions for fusion reactors.

I don't really see this kind of reactor as the future of fusion power either, but that might just be me.

Originally posted by centurion1211
And if it turns out as some have predicted as a big explosion - well, at least one of the world's problems is solved.

Certainly, then we could build one in the Federal Reserve building, Congress, and White House. That'd eliminate the next three problems on the list. We'd be moving right along, wouldn't we?

Actually no. I believe if you study this carefully you will see that Brussard's project achieved far greater success than any of the multi billion dollar magnetic containment boondoggles.

He has essentially proven that his design will work and it need not produce dangerous neutrons.

Unfortunately if this is a viable source of energy production it will probably be supressed.

This reminds me of a Stargate SG-1 episode I recently saw.