BBC
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
So the new reactor will be able to boil what…? 100 kettles’ worth?
For those who don’t know science, tea kettles are how you measure volume in the metric system.
Commercial fusion in thirty years!
First heard that in 1974. They still say the exact same thing today.
aircubed – no, no, no. Boiling tea kettles are a measure of πππππ with units of:
[British Earl Grey’s] / [International minute].
Whatever, it’s racist.
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.
Science!
So in 25 years they basically doubled a very small amount of energy created by fusion? Yeah, great.
Tea kettles?
I’m a coffee drinker.
And I forgot to mention that [British Earl Greyβs] / [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.
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Any efficient source of energy will be opposed by individuals who don’t have the intellectual firepower to burn toast. I guarandamntee it.
But, but, it’s nuclear!
Think of the waste!
aircubed — I thought it was scoience, or something like that.
IATS
TWD
So the flux capacitor is real?
Imperial tea kettles or
Metric?
I just thought of a new formula.
Nuclear fusion = Climate change
Too cheap to meter, right?
Chinas stolen the plans already.
If it succeeds, this will be the greatest discovery in history.
But then, we’ll be dead before from the nuclear war that Obama/Biden has set in motion by giving Iran nukes.
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.
What did they do with the kryptonite?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can boil sixty tea kettles with one IBS fart.
@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 USAβs electricity needs for 1000 years.
Only if filthy reprobates, who won’t suck a shenis, are not sent to the camps!
ReeEEEeeeEEE!
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.
You lost me at βthe need for carbon free energy is urgentβ.