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- Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:33 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Tokamak reactors could be practical with this one weird trick
- Replies: 12
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Re: Tokamak reactors could be practical with this one weird trick
That and he hated his most successful invention.. The Television
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:31 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Tokamak reactors could be practical with this one weird trick
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8945
Re: Tokamak reactors could be practical with this one weird trick
I think the fact that some other fusion researcher thought of it first shows it's an idea that is (or was) worth trying out. I'd be interested in seeing what the actual experimental results were, and what the rationale was for not pursuing it further. There's a difference between "We already tried ...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 7:16 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: The world's worst reactor idea: The OhioVR mantis reactor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6209
Re: The world's worst reactor idea: The OhioVR mantis reactor
Zap balloons of deuterium gas? Tell me more...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:36 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: The world's worst reactor idea: The OhioVR mantis reactor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6209
Re: The world's worst reactor idea: The OhioVR mantis reactor
Sometime, when I find the time, I'll have to flesh out the elephant & deuterium balloon concept. I believe it was ChrisMB's concept initially, but since he didn't bother to do the math and engineering, it's up to someone else to pick up where he left off. Right now I'm weighing the costs and benefi...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:10 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: The world's worst reactor idea: The OhioVR mantis reactor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6209
The world's worst reactor idea: The OhioVR mantis reactor
Yet another fusion idea that will never work but it’s fun to think about.. We all know about sonofusion here as an idea that has been thoroughly discredited and all findings have gone totally no where and are unreproducible. But that doesn’t stop mad men (and lets face it, wanting to play with 200 m...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 11:11 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Tokamak reactors could be practical with this one weird trick
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8945
Re: Tokamak reactors could be practical with this one weird trick
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- Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:41 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Tokamak reactors could be practical with this one weird trick
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8945
Tokamak reactors could be practical with this one weird trick
A tokamak reactor can only constrain plasma in 2 dimensions. Round and round the plasma goes. Every time a particle smashes into another the plasma expands. Keeping the over all magnetic fields around the plasma at a superlative strength allows for the plasma to move slowly toward the edges. But soo...
- Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: making a plasma with jet of water
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13931
making a plasma with jet of water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTq8oGpqwM& this was mentioned in a scientific paper and this fellow decided to replicate the results. He found he could create the plasma on most surfaces he tried even though the original researchers used something kind of exotic. Oil didn't have the plasma effect ...
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 1:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12544
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
looks like we have more pressing problems here on Earth though:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casest ... in-arctic/
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casest ... in-arctic/
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12544
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
Well the transportation idea should work, its got over 1.78 jiggawatts per square meter of beam intersection
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12544
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
The intense ionizing radiation will convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and tons of buckyballs.. Too bad they are deadly when inhaledJoeP wrote:Venus is too hard.
Floating cloud cities seem the most viable option. Still hard though with poisonous atmosphere.
Titan is much friendlier.
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:58 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12544
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
Fixing the atmosphere of Venus is the easy part. That chunk of rock has a day longer than its year. This could be even worse than being tidally locked to always have on side facing the Sun. In that condition, at least there could be a narrow habitable band at the terminator, between a side constant...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12544
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
Now Quaid, get your ass to Mars
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12544
How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
The main limitation for the use of Dyson-Harrop satellites: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19497-out-of-this-world-proposal-for-solar-wind-power/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/sokolowsky2/ for the generation of electrical energy has been transporting it and converting it to ci...
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 3:30 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: X-Ray Reflection and Absorption
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17196
Re: X-Ray Reflection and Absorption
It is a toughie, I thought of the same thing just recently. Even if you could bend the Xrays back in on itself, you would probably lose too much energy from losses at the reflectors. To make matters worse, the X-rays would probably pass right through the ignited gas or plasma.