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    A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap

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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    Its quite beautiful really, the form and symmetry. Its kind of scary, though, when you consider the possibilities for EPIC screw up.
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    Image of I Think We're Property I Think We're Property
    07/31/09

    @Curves: What epic screw up would that be? Fusion requires an active process to maintain, can't really have a runaway reaction like fission processes, and thus would theoretically 'quit cold' even if the device experienced a critical failure. A fusion reactor isn't the same thing as a fusion bomb.
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    Image of Dreamwriter Dreamwriter
    08/01/09

    @I Think We're Property: Explain that to the sun :P
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    08/01/09

    @Dreamwriter:That's a little bit different...the sun has a HUGE amount of fuel and holds it together with gravity...pressure goes up, gravity goes down, it grows but still has enough pressure to keep going...if you dropped all containment on the sun, it would blast apart and stop working.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    Didn't some facility already prove they can create visible light in water by using high powered sound waves in a flask?
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/31/09

    @FrankenPC:
    This - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_fusion ?
    It's one of the iffy forms of Fusion. It could be a fusion reaction (though so small as to be useless), but it just might be a nice pretty light.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/31/09

    @deanbmmv: Thanks for the link. My point being, if energy can be concentrated on a small scale using sound, it can be magnified on a large scale. So, it might be possible.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    And if it all goes horribly wrong they can sink it in the river. Because water puts out fusion reactions...
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    Image of Skeetz Skeetz
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap

    We're goin nuclear, eh.

    But seriously, being canadian myself, I'd have to say this shouldn't be too hard considering we already have a few.. yeah it shouldn't be too hard to retrofit a US destroying missile rocket on behalf of north korea for the right price... bwahahahaha bacon mwahahahaha
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    Image of Andyr2120 Andyr2120
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    Probably uses Ur-Eh-nium....
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    07/31/09

    @Andyr2120: No, it's a fusion reaction. Fusion uses Hydrogen or Helium, typically. This is how our sun works, it's just a big fusion reaction. The advantage is that there's usually almost no radiation produced from the reaction (and in bombs, it makes a bigger boom).
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    Image of Hi, I'm God Hi, I'm God
    07/31/09

    @Andyr2120: Difference between fusion and fission materials;

    Fission - The bigger it is the easier to break. They use 238-Uranium... relatively unstable, but more importantly its big.

    Fusion - Requires more oomphh to combine larger things, therefore the smaller the better. Hydrogen has 1 proton, Helium has 2... they're the two smallest elements.
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    Image of Hi, I'm God Hi, I'm God
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    This is a win-win situations.

    If it works; YAY energy.
    If it fails; YAY awesome explosion! BOOM!
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    Oh Canada.

    I imagine this solution would be be palatable for the general population as huge ass explosions are preferable to fallout in the event of reactor failure?
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    Image of Skeetz Skeetz
    07/31/09

    @anexanhume aka Flintheart Glomgold: *Glares at you from The Hat..*
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    06/20/09

    In reply to In the Future, Robots Will Tell You How To Do Stuff, Silently Judge You
    I don't mind Teamworkbot so long as he doesn't bring his buddy Rectalexambot to work with him...
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    06/19/09

    In reply to In the Future, Robots Will Tell You How To Do Stuff, Silently Judge You
    What's Al Gore doing in an orange vest?
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    Image of IMWylde IMWylde
    06/17/09

    In reply to Researchers Cram a Camera Into a Sheet of Fiber
    this + 4" wide strips of overlapping flexible oled screen = Chameleon armor
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    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    06/17/09

    @IMWylde:


    I will have wonderful dreams of the future tonight.

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    06/17/09

    In reply to Researchers Cram a Camera Into a Sheet of Fiber
    Diameter of 25mm? millimeters? methinks they mean Nanometers or NM..


    (25mm is just under 1 inch)

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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    06/17/09

    In reply to RF Cochlea Is a Super-Powered Signal Processor Modeled After the Inner Ear
    Signal defeated by loud music, gun shots and power equipment!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    06/17/09

    In reply to RF Cochlea Is a Super-Powered Signal Processor Modeled After the Inner Ear
    I can't help myself from reading cholera.
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    Image of fredcadete fredcadete
    06/11/09

    In reply to Scientists Discover Superconducting Material That's Just Two Atoms Thick
    Can mantain a current without a power source? Really??
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    Image of AreWeThereYeti AreWeThereYeti
    06/11/09

    @fredcadete: Yeah, superconductors are pretty freaky. They don't just have a very low resistance, they have exactly 0 resistance, so it takes no voltage to keep a current going, just the current's inertia keeps it going (although if it goes through a bend it will emit radiation that will eventually sap it's energy).


    Even freakier: you can have two different currents that run opposite directions in the *same* wire at the same time without affecting each other... (head 'asplodes)

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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    06/11/09

    @AreWeThereYeti:


    Nothing has 0 resistance. They might have a resistance VERY CLOSE to 0, but it will not be 0.


    Also it might retain a current for a while after it has been unplugged from a power source (as it would take a while to discharge), but it's not going to spontaneously form a current.

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    Image of Mathyc Mathyc
    06/11/09

    In reply to Scientists Discover Superconducting Material That's Just Two Atoms Thick
    How do you even make something that's 2 atoms thick ...
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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    06/11/09

    @jeroenstuyts:


    It's pretty easy. What's hard is to make a material that is 1 atom thick and STABLE. That's really the hard part.

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