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Wait, what? It sounds like you’re saying if cars had fusion reactors for engines then we wouldn’t need rechargeable batteries?
by zaroth 7y ago
Wait, what? It sounds like you’re saying if cars had fusion reactors for engines then we wouldn’t need rechargeable batteries?
- fulafel 7y agoYes, we just need to restart DeLorean production... I'm not sure how far we have studied the miniaturization of reactors. There were some designs for airplanes and cruise missiles in the 50s. And there's the current Russian missile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik). A paper at https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.1358022 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.1358022 claims that 60-80 kg reactors might be possible.