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871.
by ncmncm 4y ago
Oops, autocorrect strikes again. The blanket is lithium hydride, not hydroxide. Some people talk about adding beryllium.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
(Lithium hydride. The resulting caustic vapor is lithium hydroxide.)
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Oops, lithium hydride. (Damn autocorrect.)
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Oops, lithium hydride . (Autocorrect strikes again!) Lithium hydroxide is what you get, as thousands of tons of caustic vapor, when it catches fire. What that does when you breathe it does not bear contemplation.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
How does neutrons bumping protons produce light?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Yet, already less than opex for steam turbines. And still falling.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
True enough. But by the time that could be fielded, our energy problems will already have been solved, or civilization will have collapsed.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Every scenario for fusion power requires extremely expensive processes to extract heat, and then using it to drive steam turbines. But operating steam turbines, all by itself, costs more than renewables. These extremely expensive processe
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by ncmncm 4y ago
That is what power system engineers are employed to get right.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Everybody has known all along that renewables generation is intermittent. Mentioning it adds no light. And renewables happily coexist with other uses of the same land, so none is used up.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Sustained p-11B fusion might not be possible: the gamma photons carry away too much energy, and nothing can reflect them back. But if it could be made to work, it would be a better prospect than D-T.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The Line was a necessary component of a defense. It just needed more, that was not done. Without Czech armor, the invasion might have failed. Predicting the Germans would have the full resources of Czechoslovakia would require more prescien
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Anything that depends on converting heat will be more expensive than renewables + storage. So, nukes, howsoever clever, have no place. Please do not pretend not to have heard of storage. It fools no one, but makes you look foolish.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The lithium + neutrons would breed the tritium you need for fuel to burn tomorrow. Extracting parts-per-billion of tritium distributed throughout thousands of tons of hot, brittle, radioactive, super-flammable LiH would be no picnic. Meltin
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Battery cost is not falling as fast as it was. The others have only just started down.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
> Nobody is questioning this Yet, when somebody puts in work to systematize that understanding, you do . If you know a better way to organize the knowledge, publish that. > evidence that MB is any better than astrology or the the
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Who said it was a thing for employers? You only prove my point.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Strangely enough, people have thought of it. Just not you.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
CAES, ammonia synthesis, hydrogen electrolysis... Everything comes down as manufacturing volume goes up.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Don't dislocate anything patting yourself on the back. Overwhelmingly more of success is luck than anybody involved likes to think.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Dollars are fungible. A dollar spent on X is manifestly not spent on Y, except by accident.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Generally somebody should have explained somewhere . But it is not considered very interesting, because nobody seiously expects to ever need to solve it.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Where do the photons come from?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
How will you extract the tritium at PPB concentration from thousands of tons of flame-hot radioactive lithium hydroxide? Daily? Intractable means that anything you try is worse than not starting.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Fusion reactors would have to be enormously bigger than fission plants. And cost correspondingly more both to build and to operate.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Fusion will not provide unlimited energy. And not even affordable energy. There is nothing to see here but physicists having fun with other people's money.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Yet, the iphone is the more significant event.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
No. Progress toward cancellation, as its gross impossibility fades into gross impracticality and grossly extreme cost. You can safely ignore all future fusion announcements.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Exactly 0%. Achieving stable fusion does not make practical power from it possible. It would necessarily cost >10x fission, and fission is not competitive. We can be absolutely ,confident that by 2100, there will have been zero kWh of co
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by ncmncm 4y ago
When the thousands of tons of lithium hydroxide catch fire, you will notice.

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