Comment Re: Yes and? (Score 1) 239
ITER won't even have turbines to generate electricity. Better start building that small fission reactor now.
ITER won't even have turbines to generate electricity. Better start building that small fission reactor now.
Think of it as "the electricity it takes to run the fusion plant itself". Right now we don't have any fusion reactions that produce more energy than they consume.
I am not sure if this includes conversion losses, such as converting the heat of the reactor into electrical energy that we want.
But we didn't stop building trains in the 1920's when someone said "maybe in 50 years airplanes will be able to carry all these people."
Right now people want to stop all development of fission reactors on the "maybe" of fusion.
My car is powered by wheels. Or maybe friction?
Propellent is the thing being kicked out of the back of a rocket to make it go. In a chemical rocket, the propellent is usually the exhaust of the fuel, (hydrogen + oxygen = water, kerosene + oxygen = co2 + some stuff, hydrozine + itself = a bunch of hydrogen and nitrogen diatomic molecules)
For chemical rockets, the exhaust is a gas and HOT, making it expand and blast out of the rocket nozzle.
In an electrical rocket, electricity is generated somehow and the propellent mass is usually something inert like Xenon. Turn it into ions, and use the electric field to kick it out of the rocket at high velocity.
A troll is only successful if they can get people to argue with each other, and even more successful if they can get people to argue for opinions they wouldn't hold if they took 2 seconds to think about it.
I haven't seen anyone quite crack this nut well yet but there is an obvious alignment or synergy (ugh I hate this word) between hydrogen energy and clean water production. Not just potable water but PURE water.
I suppose Coke has had enough trouble making distilled water into useful drinking water with Dasani. But if we could figure out a way to make industrial quantities of distilled water cheaply enough, I am sure we can figure it out.
No, the reason your "anti-capitalists" hate hydrogen is because it is mostly produced by refining oil.
If we could get some kind of fusion baseline to generate enough electricity to produce enough hydrogen for current needs, much less using it as a fuel, we would probably have cheap enough electrolysis desalination process to fix our looming drinking water problem.
What a shitty take for Slashdot, of all places.
Some of the greatest code has been "vigilante" code. Which is one of the dumbest terms I have ever heard.
Fuck you, and fuck your closed source.
Its the wikipedia alpha-lock.
Incorrect info in wiki.
Wiki gets cited in a shitty web news article.
Shitty web news article is used as source for wiki.
Now its stuck like that forever.
Unless they get water so cheaply that they can just use it for cooling then flush it (perhaps literally).
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Or dumping it back in a reservoir. There's several datacenters in dumb places like Atlanta that do this.
Any random shitcoin might get pumped up to a huge value. Even ones intentionally started as a joke.
But, hey, don't let that stop you from holding "to the moon" right?
Hell, my mom was a hippie and my dad was a disillusioned Vietnam vet... yet they both managed to be right wing Christian conservatives by the end of the 80s, even though we were poor as fuck.
That seems to be standard practice for Wikipedia disinformation.
1. Put false information into a wiki page.
2. Dupe/Pay an online publication to write an article repeating this false information.
3. Use article as source on original page.
4. False information successfully alpha-locked.
I am in my 40s and I am more concerned about the factualness of statements about me than the person making the statements.
But, then I haven't spent my entire adult life being a pile of shit, so I am not particularly worried about what people might say about me.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
