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Carbon-free fusion power could be ‘on the grid in 15 years’

Neutrons do have a magnetic moment so they can be deflected by a magnetic field gradient (as in the Stern-Gerlach experiment) but, yes, efficient power extraction using MHD would likely be very difficult because of their overall electric charge neutrality.
 
Haggis and tatties said:
50 years ago i was promised flying cars, living on the moon and a talking living home with a brain, and what did we get, fidget spinners. :wtf:
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I for one am glad we didn't get flying cars. If my car dies or runs out of what ever is powering it, I can come to stop safely. Flying cars, become death from above and property damage.
Think it's hard to get a license now? Trying getting one for a vehicle that can travel in directions a car can't.
Think drivers are bad now? Imagine ones in flying cars.
No need to hijack planes and slam them into things for terrorists; handy flying cars can do that job.

Eh, who needs to live in the moon anyway?


But yeah, those fucking fidget spinners.
 
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tharpdevenport said:
I for one am glad we didn't get flying cars. If my car dies or runs out of what ever is powering it, I can come to stop safely. Flying cars, become death from above and property damage.
Think it's hard to get a license now? Trying getting one for a vehicle that can travel in directions a car can't.
Think drivers are bad now? Imagine ones in flying cars.
No need to hijack planes and slam them into things for terrorists; handy flying cars can do that job.

Eh, who needs to live in the moon anyway?


But yeah, those fucking fidget spinners.
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I think we'll get flying cars (the Return To The Future kind) at about the same time when we'll get flying pigs... maybe even a year or two later.
 
I actually came up with a means of nearly perpetual (would last as long as the Earth's gravity continues to pull at approximately the current level), carbon-free power production, back in 1993. Unfortunately, it requires several inconveniently city-block-sized high bounce balls.
 
Fifteen years before I'm dead, it'll still be fifteen years away. That's about where it's always at -- just a few years away.

Colonel Sanders: "Soon!"
 
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I remember how excited they were when they thought that they had achieved cold fusion back in the days. I remember the dithyrambic articles in all the major science magazines.
 
Discofan said:
Yeah, the second principle of thermodynamics is not your friend in that case. It would be better to do away with heat altogether and turn it directly into electricity.
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Couldn't we just do away with the second principle of thermodynamics? Then it wouldn't be such an issue :)
 
Tetragrammaton Invictus said:
Actually

They did that on Mythbusters making a thing with square wheels.
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I am not surprised. The other day I saw that they were doing something with fart gas. They tried to burn two mannequins in a tent with their own (simulated) fart gas, assuming that they've been farting for hours and that someone lit a match...
 
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