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I refer to my solar panels as nuclear power, just to mess with people: I use a gravitationally-confined fusion reactor, and pull power out of it by allowing th
by myself248 1y ago
I refer to my solar panels as nuclear power, just to mess with people:
I use a gravitationally-confined fusion reactor, and pull power out of it by allowing the radiation to excite unbound electron-hole pairs in a semiconductor substrate. It's dangerous; even miles away from the reactor itself I can't expose myself to the radiation for too long or I get a painful skin reaction, and that might lead to cancer someday, but hey, it's cheap and quiet and I don't pay for the nuclear fuel!
- kibwen 1y ago> I refer to my solar panels as nuclear power, just to mess with people Solar is actually fusion power, which is way cooler than any fission plant that puny humans have ever constructed.