Nuclear Fusion has occurred on Earth!

Beefbisquit · Oct 8, 2013

The BBC understands that during an experiment in late September, the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel - the first time this had been achieved at any fusion facility in the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24429621

Commander Strax · Oct 8, 2013

Fucking Nuclear Physicists will not be happy untill they kill all of us

Nevaeh420 · Oct 10, 2013

Its a start.

~PEACE~

Commander Strax · Oct 10, 2013

"Ivy Mike" was a fusion explosion November 1st 1951. It left a big hole where some of bikini atoll used to be. The reaction was three times what the scientists had figured. The fall out outright killed the radio operator of a Japanese fishing trawler and radiated the rest of the crew along with the crew of the US ship and the people living on the next island over.

Well , It's a start.

Hugo Phurst · Oct 10, 2013

Splitting hairs here, we've had fusion for decades now. We just can't contain or harness it yet.
[video=youtube;NNcQX033V_M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcQX033V_M[/video]

Commander Strax · Oct 10, 2013

I would say we are splitting atoms here but that would be fision.

bird mcbride · Oct 11, 2013

Nuclear fusion is all to easy. A certain type of field has to be generated into the reactor core. This field breaks the h2o into hydrogen and oxygen and when the two ignite it changes back into water again etc. This same field is used in systems on the international space station to breakdown water vapor in the air produced by people breathing back into oxygen and hydrogen. At present the oxygen is recycled back into the system and the hydrogen is being dumped overboard.

bird mcbride · Oct 12, 2013

I think every home should be equipped with it's own fusion reactor

Dr Kynes · Oct 12, 2013

bird mcbride said:
Nuclear fusion is all to easy. A certain type of field has to be generated into the reactor core.This field breaks the h2o into hydrogen and oxygen and when the two ignite it changes back into water again etc.
This same field is used in systems on the international space station to breakdown water vapor in the air produced by people breathing back into oxygen and hydrogen. At present the oxygen is recycled back into the system and the hydrogen is being dumped overboard.

so many things wrong about that assertion.

1 ) the space station and the space shuttle use Fuel Cells, not any "certain type of field"

2 ) what you are erroneously describing is not Fusion. thats a chemical reaction.

3 ) "igniting things" is what we call a chemical reaction, specifically. "fire" it's sorta new. you probably havent heard of it yet. but it does NOT make "water"

4 ) if that were fusion then fusion was perfected 50,000 years ago in a cave near Olduvai Gorge in Kenya by a Homo Habilis who still hadnt figured out how to make stone tools.

5 ) not even close. thats not even how fuel cells work. heres a pretty picture:

~http://americanhistory.si.edu/fuelcells/basics.htm

Dr Kynes · Oct 12, 2013

bird mcbride said:
I think every home should be equipped with it's own fusion reactor

i think every home should be equipped with it's own Google Box.

maybe you should invest in one.

ak84 · Oct 12, 2013

Reads like good news to me. Nuclear fusion is a much cleaner alternative to fission and it could potentially save us.

bird mcbride · Oct 12, 2013

Dr Kynes said:
i think every home should be equipped with it's own Google Box.

maybe you should invest in one.

Fusion is the reaction of two basic molecules, hydrogen and oxygen. The sun produces a field that breaks these two elements apart as soon as they are fused back together. That is the fusion that I am refering to. Fact is you know shit and google ain't going to disclose the entire truth to you or anyone about nuclear fusion. In fact a process known as hydrolysis(which uses a field to do this) breaks the water vapour into oxygen and hydrogen and the oxygen is recycled back into the space station. This has nothing to do with fuel cells. Speaking of fuel cells, the oxygen in the cryo tanks on the apollo missions was o3, not o2. This is why so many who have tried to get this cold fusion reactor to work have failed. There are in fact different types of fusion reactors. Hot and cold fusion. Don't get the two confused. Fact is up until recently it takes more energy to produce this field than what the hot fusion reactor was putting out. If you can't understand that I really don't know how to help you. Here in Canada we now have a device that is way simpler and way more efficient for producing waste free electricity. It also employs a field; a sonic force field...

heckler73 · Oct 12, 2013

bird mcbride said:
Fusion is the reaction of two basic molecules, hydrogen and oxygen. The sun produces a field that breaks these two elements apart as soon as they are fused back together. That is the fusion that I am refering to.

What is this field? Your story sounds great except for the missing details...

bird mcbride · Oct 12, 2013

Here's another clue. The German government during the early part of the 20th century had an interest in zeppelins or flying air ships. They removed hydrogen from water using this same method. It is really ancient.

Beefbisquit · Oct 12, 2013

bird mcbride said:
Here's another clue. The German government during the early part of the 20th century had an interest in zeppelins or flying air ships. They removed hydrogen from water using this same method. It is really ancient.

You mean electrolysis of water by passing a current through it?

Commander Strax · Oct 13, 2013

Nuclear energy is a BAD idea

frizzlegooch · Oct 13, 2013

Commander Strax said:
Nuclear energy is a BAD idea

I tend to agree . It's great and clean until you have to dispose of the hazardous waste. There are many cleaner and safer alternatives . People generally fear the unknown and I must say I don't fully understand the specifics of nuclear power but having a mike power plant even in my county would scare me .

heckler73 · Oct 13, 2013

Okay... there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding regarding nuclear reactors.
Reactors like Fukushima come from the 1st & 2nd generation designs... we are now onto Gen III/III+ and looking forward to Gen IV...
Watch how the Chinese professor drops the graphite shielded pellets and chuckles...

[video=youtube;4A1uoJ1Z5iA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A1uoJ1Z5iA[/video]

EDIT: Just a link to a good synopsis of the different Gen IV technologies on the table currently (as of July 2013)
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/N.../Generation-IV-Nuclear-Reactors/#.UlsP4RBYKzc

ginjawarrior · Oct 14, 2013

Dr Kynes said:
3 ) "igniting things" is what we call a chemical reaction, specifically. "fire" it's sorta new. you probably havent heard of it yet. but it does NOT make "water"

Hmm what exactly do you think you get when you combine oxygen and hydrogen with fire?

bird mcbride · Oct 14, 2013

Beefbisquit said:
You mean electrolysis of water by passing a current through it?

Yes, an electrostatic field has to be produce inside of the reactor core for the purpose of defusing. The core also has to be brought up to a specific temp in order for the fusion to continue, similar in some ways as a diesel engine.

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