UK Scientist Ecstatic They Produced Enough Nuclear Fusion to Boil 60 Tea Kettles – IOTW Report

UK Scientist Ecstatic They Produced Enough Nuclear Fusion to Boil 60 Tea Kettles

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The UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.

If nuclear fusion can be successfully recreated on Earth it holds out the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.

The experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).

This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.

It’s not a massive energy output – only enough to boil about 60 kettles’ worth of water. But the significance is that it validates design choices that have been made for an even bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in France. More

25 Comments on UK Scientist Ecstatic They Produced Enough Nuclear Fusion to Boil 60 Tea Kettles

  1. Sadly, the Atomic Energy Commission had a molten salt reactor running for years at Oak Ridge but the Nixon administration shut it down.
    Thorium in a molten salt reactor is an easily reachable goal in just a few years if our stupid regulators would get off their asses.
    There is enough thorium already mined for the manhattan project and sitting stored in the desert to power the USA’s electricity needs for 1000 years.

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  2. And I forgot to mention that [British Earl Grey’s] / [International minute] is convertible, of course, to the more familiar units of:

    [English Crumpets w/Strawbry jam] / [Sidereal Hour] / Gβ‚’

    where Gβ‚’ = 32.2 ft/secΒ² since in the British System, F β‰  ma.

    (Questions? Office hours are 09:00-10:00 [UTC +00:00])

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  3. If it took them 25 years to go from 30 kettles to 60 and the world is going to end in ten (cos climate crisis is real and all) aren’t they just wasting the best years of their lives?

    Put kettle on pet, time for a cuppa.

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  4. @Jethro February 10, 2022 at 5:41 pm

    > There is enough thorium already mined for the manhattan project and sitting stored in the desert to power the USA’s electricity needs for 1000 years.

    Only if filthy reprobates, who won’t suck a shenis, are not sent to the camps!

    ReeEEEeeeEEE!

  5. If out of an entire population, only a percentage, who will not engage in Aspiration of a shenis, will be selected to not go to the camps….then I say…..that sounds like a pretty good deal.

    Plus, it seems like the massively reduced population of non filthy reprobates will leave plenty of thorium to go around for the orally pure reprobates of conjectural unwashedness.

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