An update on nuclear fusion

[Walsingham]

Oil's not going to completely dry up. As the price rises you'll find other things taking its place. I doubt that manufactured goods will be a problem. For example, as I say, hardened cellulose composites, wood, and even ceramics.

 

The real point here is that if gusion happens properly then by god it will mark a step change in human endeavour. Cheap ready energy. Space exploration, mass transit, pollution reduction, huge frikking _lasers_. No doubt some bastard will come along and arse it all sideways but for now leave me my optimism.

[Humodour]

For a start, only something like 2% of all oil is used to manufacture plastics. Moreover, even with oil being uneconomical to use as a fuel source (which is what we're REALLY talking about here), I've read that that will barely interefere with plastic manufacture prices, and that even if it should, we have lower-grade hydrocarbons we cen resort to.

 

As Wals said, oil won't suddenly dispappear. The price will simply reach a point where it's uneconomical to use it as a fuel (whether due to pollution taxes or peak oil). It's not at all elementary that this would raise the cost of plastic manufacture prohibitively.

[Walsingham]

Exactly. I mean we could add aluminium to fuel* but that would be far too expensive, and we still make crap out of it.

 

*Presumably. I know it multiplies the blast power of TNT.

[lord of flies]

...having visions of cars doing the "miniature mushroom cloud" thing when crashing and their fusion cells ruptures...

Since actual Tokamak reactors are huge, this wouldn't happen. Further, fusion materials are not actually explosive, so would actually happen (if somebody miniaturized a Tokamak and stuck it in a car) would be the car melting as the heat escapes.

[Gorth]

...having visions of cars doing the "miniature mushroom cloud" thing when crashing and their fusion cells ruptures...

Since actual Tokamak reactors are huge, this wouldn't happen. Further, fusion materials are not actually explosive, so would actually happen (if somebody miniaturized a Tokamak and stuck it in a car) would be the car melting as the heat escapes.

You need to watch more Hollywood movies, everybody knows that cars explode violently half a second before impact

[Walsingham]

...having visions of cars doing the "miniature mushroom cloud" thing when crashing and their fusion cells ruptures...

Since actual Tokamak reactors are huge, this wouldn't happen. Further, fusion materials are not actually explosive, so would actually happen (if somebody miniaturized a Tokamak and stuck it in a car) would be the car melting as the heat escapes.

You need to watch more Hollywood movies, everybody knows that cars explode violently half a second before impact

 

BEFORE impact?

[cronicler]

Of course, they are impatient buggers. They also like blowing up from collisions bigger than rabid rabbit strikes on bumpers.

[Calax]

...having visions of cars doing the "miniature mushroom cloud" thing when crashing and their fusion cells ruptures...

Since actual Tokamak reactors are huge, this wouldn't happen. Further, fusion materials are not actually explosive, so would actually happen (if somebody miniaturized a Tokamak and stuck it in a car) would be the car melting as the heat escapes.

You need to watch more Hollywood movies, everybody knows that cars explode violently half a second before impact

 

BEFORE impact?

Or when they're tapped with another car

[Walsingham]

...having visions of cars doing the "miniature mushroom cloud" thing when crashing and their fusion cells ruptures...

Since actual Tokamak reactors are huge, this wouldn't happen. Further, fusion materials are not actually explosive, so would actually happen (if somebody miniaturized a Tokamak and stuck it in a car) would be the car melting as the heat escapes.

You need to watch more Hollywood movies, everybody knows that cars explode violently half a second before impact

 

BEFORE impact?

Or when they're tapped with another car

 

I thought that made them flip over like lovable puppies.

[Oerwinde]

I think it's tremendous. Makes you proud to be human. Can a giraffe make a ****ing star? I think not.

 

There's no limit to what humanity can do when they put their mind to it. Me and a guy at work had a theory that God is just humanity from the future that had advanced its technology to the point where they could travel time and manipulate matter with their mind, etc.

[Walsingham]

I think it's tremendous. Makes you proud to be human. Can a giraffe make a ****ing star? I think not.

 

There's no limit to what humanity can do when they put their mind to it. Me and a guy at work had a theory that God is just humanity from the future that had advanced its technology to the point where they could travel time and manipulate matter with their mind, etc.

 

That does it. i want a 'Team Human' fans t-shirt.

[Humodour]

...having visions of cars doing the "miniature mushroom cloud" thing when crashing and their fusion cells ruptures...

Since actual Tokamak reactors are huge, this wouldn't happen. Further, fusion materials are not actually explosive, so would actually happen (if somebody miniaturized a Tokamak and stuck it in a car) would be the car melting as the heat escapes.

 

 

Nuclear bombs don't melt.

[Oerwinde]

...having visions of cars doing the "miniature mushroom cloud" thing when crashing and their fusion cells ruptures...

Since actual Tokamak reactors are huge, this wouldn't happen. Further, fusion materials are not actually explosive, so would actually happen (if somebody miniaturized a Tokamak and stuck it in a car) would be the car melting as the heat escapes.

 

 

Nuclear bombs don't melt.

 

Nuclear bombs are also fission reactions, not fusion.

[Guest The Architect]

Do you think if a team of nuclear scientists came up with cold fusion they'd get super rich, like be the Bill Gates story of the 21st century?

[Walsingham]

"the most complicated thing an animal can do is chomp."

 

[Masterfade]

North Koreans solved it! It's official!

[Moose]

lol, "unique thermo-nuclear reaction device". No doubt.