#FunFactFriday: A new fusion record has been set, with plasma being sustained for 6 minutes with 15% more energy, thanks to the tungsten lining at WEST (Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak). Could tungsten be the solution for sustained nuclear fusion? News Source: https://interestingengineering.com/energy/nuclear-fusion-record-tungsten
There is a strange underwater creature called the pistol (or snapping) #shrimp, which uses shock waves to kill enemies or prey at a distance with no need for direct contact.
Nick Hawker often likens what the #PistolShrimp does to #inertial confinement #fusion. The shrimp’s shock-collapsed bubble does not reach anything near fusion conditions, but the burst of light testifies to an enormous concentration of energy.
@david_senate#TMSR tech has been developing through maritime law, since the Nobel Prize winning genius Glenn Seaborg invented it in the 60's. Unfortunately, Western Capitalist and Autocratic industrialized nations have little chance of the extensive buildout that's necessary to fully integrate this only viable #BaseloadEnergy - until #NuclearFusion can be solved in a hundred years - so 'third world countries' are now taking the lead. Between these countries and maritime application, perhaps your grandchildren have a shot.
@carolynporco All sleight-of-hand to further enrich fossil fuels shareholders, who successfully keep #renewables and #SMR tech at a 10% market share - and completely suppress the only viable #BaseloadEnergy - #TMSR tech, until #NuclearFusion can be integrated. Nuclear fusion is 100 years out, and about half the human population too late.
I've only just read that the UK has pulled out of the massive #ITER#fusion reactor project. Instead, the UK is going to build its own. I guarantee it's going to be shit. Probably won't ever be finished & will end up costing billions. All because the UK government "doesn't want to play with those foreign European types". Also, the #JET lab in Oxfordshire is closing. Amazing, pioneering work was done there with our European partners. What an awful country this is. #science#NuclearFusion#brexit
A lunar base ist vital for #Elmos planned colonization of #Mars. #Recently, there have been several endavors, to establish basis on the far side of the #Moon.
Agreed, real use of #NuclearFusion has always been "always around the corner" for several decades. Just like #AI. Last year, there was a big break through re/ energy produced. 50 years is a very long time.
#AGI will happen first, within this decades. IMO, the next evolutionary step hinges...
a) AGI will lead to huge breakthroughs in other fields (unless it were an evil one;)) - A lot is already happening in #biosciences. However, power and water consumption will rise tremendously, adverse affecting the #climatebreakdown
b) Commercialization of #NuclearFusion would make AGI (apart from the H2O issue) manageable and cheaper in TOC. Also, it would provide a new source of energy for...
...spacecraft, enabling higher speeds, further reaches, etc.
c) A successful establishment of a #Martian colony by Musk would lead to an immense drain of resources, as the rich would have a "safe room" from climate breakdown.
And there are probably more interdepencies, these are just from the top of my head.
And just to be clear:
this is no 1950's enthusiasm for technological advances. Except for #NuclearFusion, I think it would be best if the other two would not happen. //
@SocraticEthics It’s only taken 60 years and untold billions of dollars for controlled #NuclearFusion to not LOSE energy, which by the way is conserved by the 1st Law of #Thermodynamics. 🤔
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
A reminder, when you encounter #Windfarm objectors, advise them that turbines can be disassembled when we achieve #NuclearFusion. Until then, we’re in emergency mode to stop poison being spilled into the atmosphere
As Britain tries to legislate a #CleanEnergy transition a variety of objections are being raised. Each one aids the #Carbonarchy
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced#technology is indistinguishable from #magic.