• DIY: Man Builds Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor in Brooklyn
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[QUOTE=huntskikbut;22836530]How did he control the fucking massive chain reaction that would theoretically happen if you attempted to keep it running longer than a split second? [/QUOTE] Magnetic fields. [editline]04:09AM[/editline] [QUOTE=don818;22837537]Wait, it's Fusion. How come he isn't getting more output than input?[/QUOTE] Input: Energy to keep the magnetic bottle, power the pump for the heat exchanger, fire the lasers (Or whatever inertial confinement fusion trigger he was using), keeping the ions inside a small space within the coils... Output: Some randomized heat. It will take a lot of engineering to get this shit done, but once it's done we'll see the efficiency of fusion reactors increase geometrically.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22838743]Magnetic fields. [editline]04:09AM[/editline] Input: Energy to keep the magnetic bottle, power the pump for the heat exchanger, fire the lasers (Or whatever inertial confinement fusion trigger he was using), keeping the ions inside a small space within the coils... Output: Some randomized heat. It will take a lot of engineering to get this shit done, but once it's done we'll see the efficiency of fusion reactors increase geometrically.[/QUOTE] Ah, thanks.
[QUOTE=Gunguy;22836188]fuck fuck fuck fuck i live in brooklyn[/QUOTE] Better evacuate now while you still can.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;22835588]Anyone thought of this? [IMG]http://thefaust.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/tony-stark.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Yes, yes it did. [editline]06:44AM[/editline] Oh look, I can see myself.
Where do you even obtain deuterium gas? But anyways, this is real cool, to bad current fusion reactor designs rarely break even.
Would be fucking rad if he fucked something up, and Brooklyn would turn into Chernobyl
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;22843695]Where do you even obtain deuterium gas? But anyways, this is real cool, to bad current fusion reactor designs rarely break even.[/QUOTE] A supplier from New Jersey apparently.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;22843778]Would be fucking rad if he fucked something up, and Brooklyn would turn into Chernobyl[/QUOTE] You can't make a fusion reactor into a bomb.
Bah should have built a fission reactor. Fusion is plodding along slowly, I'd much prefer advanced fission micro reactors right now. [editline]03:45AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Laserbeams;22843778]Would be fucking rad if he fucked something up, and Brooklyn would turn into Chernobyl[/QUOTE] I don't know what would happen if a fusion reactor decided to go critical. I tend to imagine it either being impossible or much MUCH worse than a standard fission meltdown.
[QUOTE=GunFox;22844303] I don't know what would happen if a fusion reactor decided to go critical. I tend to imagine it either being impossible or much MUCH worse than a standard fission meltdown.[/QUOTE] If in the presence of tritium, and much more power is applied, with the size of the current municipal reactors, I could imagine half of the eastern seaboard disappearing.
[QUOTE=GunFox;22844303]I don't know what would happen if a fusion reactor decided to go critical. I tend to imagine it either being impossible or much MUCH worse than a standard fission meltdown.[/QUOTE] You would get some slightly radioactive hot gas released. The metal will probably be slightly radioactive too, but it's all within safe environmental radioactivity levels.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;22843778]Would be fucking rad if he fucked something up, and Brooklyn would turn into Chernobyl[/QUOTE] Absolutely nothing would happen. The guy could get some burns due to the plasma and there would be some Neutron radiation but that's that.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22849400]Absolutely nothing would happen. The guy could get some burns due to the plasma and there would be some Neutron radiation but that's that.[/QUOTE] This. Fusion reactor meltdown are [b]harmless[/b] compared to fission ones. Keeping the reaction running is very demanding task, and when anything goes wrong, the reaction ceases. Some plasma leaks and some minor amounts of radiation get out, but in this case, I doubt that the worst case scenario be dangerous for more than 3 blocks around the guy's house. [editline]04:40PM[/editline] I like how hilariously dumb the article is. "His generator generates 30kV." Yeah. "Smashing neutrons together" that's dumber than Large Hardon Collider
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;22851107]This. Fusion reactor meltdown are [b]harmless[/b] compared to fission ones. Keeping the reaction running is very demanding task, and when anything goes wrong, the reaction ceases. Some plasma leaks and some minor amounts of radiation get out, but in this case, I doubt that the worst case scenario be dangerous for more than 3 blocks around the guy's house. [editline]04:40PM[/editline] I like how hilariously dumb the article is. "His generator generates 30kV." Yeah. "Smashing neutrons together" that's dumber than Large Hardon Collider[/QUOTE] Uhm... Fusion reactors are actually much more dangerous than fission reactors. If a fusion reactor goes out of control (ie loss of whatever field that is restricting it), a massive chain reaction could (in presence of enough "fuel") happen, releasing huge amounts of energy uncontrollably. [editline]06:10PM[/editline] [QUOTE=SamPerson123;22843983]You can't make a fusion reactor into a bomb.[/QUOTE] Start it, then remove the field controlling it. Vuala, bomb.
I doubt it would ever work but Eh, lots the world's greatest inventions were conceived in a garage
[QUOTE=huntskikbut;22861333]Uhm... Fusion reactors are actually much more dangerous than fission reactors. If a fusion reactor goes out of control (ie loss of whatever field that is restricting it), a massive chain reaction could (in presence of enough "fuel") happen, releasing huge amounts of energy uncontrollably. [editline]06:10PM[/editline] Start it, then remove the field controlling it. Vuala, bomb.[/QUOTE] Do you know how little fuel the thing used?
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;22843778]Would be fucking rad if he fucked something up, and Brooklyn would turn into Chernobyl[/QUOTE] Yeah possibly killing hundreds of thousands of peoples is p cool
how the fuck is this legal? [editline]08:54PM[/editline] oh I read it as fission. :doh:
[QUOTE=huntskikbut;22861333]Uhm... Fusion reactors are actually much more dangerous than fission reactors. If a fusion reactor goes out of control (ie loss of whatever field that is restricting it), a massive chain reaction could (in presence of enough "fuel") happen, releasing huge amounts of energy uncontrollably.[/quote] Nope, that's completely wrong. The reactors which we have now, actually output less energy than is needed to sustain the reaction. When ANYTHING goes wrong, the reaction stops within nanoseconds. The plasma has to be in almost absolute vacuum, held by magnetic field. It might have high temperature, but it's extremely diluted. When it gets out of the reactor, it gives away it's energy in matter of milliseconds. Even the future reactors will always work at relatively only little bit higher energy output than input, because the reaction is so demanding to run. The fuel outside of the reactor has no chance of catching off the fusion reaction from a leaked reactor. [editline]06:20AM[/editline] [QUOTE=huntskikbut;22861333] Start it, then remove the field controlling it. Vuala, you made a slight puff.[/QUOTE] fixd
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;22843778]Would be fucking rad if he fucked something up, and Brooklyn would turn into Chernobyl[/QUOTE] Oh my gosh! If that happened then Helium would go everywhere and everyone within 10 meters would be speaking in a high pitched voiced for 30 seconds!
[IMG]http://media.monstersandcritics.com/articles/1206371/article_images/aceinaction.jpg[/IMG] My reaction when I saw someone built a fusor. He breaking even with this thing or what? [editline]11:06AM[/editline] [QUOTE=huntskikbut;22861333]Uhm... Fusion reactors are actually much more dangerous than fission reactors. If a fusion reactor goes out of control (ie loss of whatever field that is restricting it), a massive chain reaction could (in presence of enough "fuel") happen, releasing huge amounts of energy uncontrollably. [editline]06:10PM[/editline] [B]Start it, then remove the field controlling it. Vuala, bomb.[/B][/QUOTE] I think you'll find that's wrong. The plasma would dissipate, very quick. The worst anyone would get is within 20 feet at very worst you'd lose some of the hair on your arms and maybe your eyebrows. Although if you were right in the path of a group of neutrons then maybe you'd get a tumour. Still ain't anywhere near as bad as a fission reactor.
[QUOTE=huntskikbut;22861333]Uhm... Fusion reactors are actually much more dangerous than fission reactors. If a fusion reactor goes out of control (ie loss of whatever field that is restricting it), a massive chain reaction could (in presence of enough "fuel") happen, releasing huge amounts of energy uncontrollably.[/QUOTE] What? the plasma will dissipate the energy will be released simply as a hot gas. Kinda what like that post was
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