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DeIonizedPlasma
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DeIonizedPlasma
3y ago
You know we tested fusion bombs as early as the 50s? They've been around quite a while. Also, very few reactors use lasers. The laser system at NIF is actually entirely meant to physically emulate what fusion bombs are like without hav
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DeIonizedPlasma
3y ago
The nitter video could literally be a piece of iron, even a ferromagnetic object will turn like that under the presence of a magnet. It certainly isn't proof that the thing they have there is NOT a superconductor, but you can't us
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DeIonizedPlasma
4y ago
Laser ICF is not ever going to be applicable to power generation. NIF is first and foremost a weapons research facility, and the primary reason NIF exists is to investigate plasma in regimes similar to the core of a detonating H-Bomb. The i
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DeIonizedPlasma
4y ago
Copper salts are green. The copper will only give up an electron and make itself available to form salts with the ions in the potato at the positive electrode. This should also work with anything else conductive, you'd probably be able
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DeIonizedPlasma
4y ago
59MJ over the short period of 7s, equivalent to 8.5 MW ( https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3722 ). A research reactor (not built to be a power plant) that is still capable of powering over 20,000 households while runn