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by paperburn1
Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: General Fusion in the news
Replies: 590
Views: 357431

Re: General Fusion in the news

General fusion now has additional funding from Amazon and Shopify. looks like they have enough money to build the darn thing. :D
by paperburn1
Thu Oct 08, 2020 3:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Extraterrestrial colony companies
Replies: 44
Views: 67469

Re: Extraterrestrial colony companies

I put the break even price at about 3500 dollars for 65 seats. Is it worth 3 hours of your time? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but most definably cheaper than the concord. A transatlantic flight required the high-maintenance concord aircraft to gulp jet fuel at the rate of one ton per seat, and the average round-trip p...
by paperburn1
Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:51 am
Forum: News
Topic: Fission news(I know blasphemy )
Replies: 59
Views: 98348

Re: Fission news(I know blasphemy )

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-govern ... 00939.html

Then there is this,
(I have been out of touch for a while so if it is old news , please be kind)
by paperburn1
Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:16 pm
Forum: News
Topic: NASA reports on something called lattice confinement fusion
Replies: 9
Views: 9606

Re: NASA reports on something called lattice confinement fusion

If it just gets warm it would be a boost to deep space exploration. Like a RTG, as a portable heat source.
by paperburn1
Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New weapon?
Replies: 1
Views: 4095

Re: New weapon?

I would think people would be talking about the new intercepter howitzer round, can not kill you if it can't get to you. A U.S. Army howitzer successfully engaged a simulated cruise missile, shooting it down with a projectile traveling at Mach 5. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a33...
by paperburn1
Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Signs of life on Venus
Replies: 3
Views: 5484

Re: Signs of life on Venus

Even if it's a microbial life form, it has to eat something in order to survive. What would that be? The bacteria in hydrothermal vents are chemolithotrophs. These bacteria use sulfur, as sources of energy to reduce carbon dioxide to organic carbon. I can see venus being one big stewpot for this ty...
by paperburn1
Tue Sep 01, 2020 1:52 am
Forum: News
Topic: Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries
Replies: 22
Views: 20152

Re: Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries

In 2016 it was proposed that carbon-14 in a diamond crystal structure could be used as a longer lived betavoltaic device (a diamond battery). It was proposed that the carbon-14 could be sourced from graphite blocks from decommissioned graphite-moderated reactors. [6] In 2018 a Russian design based o...
by paperburn1
Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Skynet is coming.
Replies: 802
Views: 386685

Re: Skynet is coming.

one would logically assume that if it could read your mind and you can control external object by it the reverse could be true.
That is how I/O systems work.
I for one welcome our robot overlords
by paperburn1
Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:38 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Focus fusion
Replies: 1
Views: 4747

Focus fusion

Just a blurb of what we already know
https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/focus-fus ... ar-energy/
by paperburn1
Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:35 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 news
Replies: 440
Views: 453429

Re: EMC2 news

Nuclear Operations Group at BWXT, a company that is making “tristructural isotropic” fuel . I think this might spell the death song of any high dollar small fusion research/
by paperburn1
Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:55 am
Forum: News
Topic: General Fusion in the news
Replies: 590
Views: 357431

Re: General Fusion in the news

Burnaby, B.C.-based General Fusion says it has closed on a $65 million equity financing round that will spark the launch of a program to design, construct and operate a demonstration nuclear fusion power plant. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/canadian-startup-get...
by paperburn1
Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:45 am
Forum: News
Topic: Tokamak Energy news
Replies: 164
Views: 196704

Re: Tokamak Energy news

20 tesla 10.5 centimetres MRI are supose to be a thing 130 metric tons sooo maybe