Marathon Fusion will add mercury-198 to the blanket in the fusion reactor. “”When a fast neutron hits a mercury-198 atom it absorbs it and releases two more neutrons in its place in an N-2N Reaction, producing mercury-197. Mercury-197 is an unstable isotope that undergoes Beta minus decay. Over roughly 64 hours one of its neutrons transforms
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And some other startling statistics about the Sun. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1050215970233023/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Elon says he is not a businessman. https://www.facebook.com/reel/870111258512024/?mibextid=9drbnH Elon tells Joe Rogan we can power the whole USA with a giant solar array, a square of 100 miles by 100 miles. “”We have a giant fusion reactor in the sky.”” https://www.facebook.com/61552509624292/videos/514034091544699/?mibextid=9drbnH
OMG!! That’s HUGE! And it has a radioactive symbol on the side! Like it’s so big that it must be for a museum! https://www.facebook.com/reel/6809578515832887/?mibextid=9drbnH
This is a 35 minute YouTube video on nuclear fusion. It’s a narration but the graphics don’t match up with the narration. I give it a grade of C minus. Quote “”The ITER reactor is designed generate to 500 Megawatts of fusion power for at least 400 seconds, achieving a ten-fold gain in plasma heating
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Chris Gillespie The “net energy” is the catch. One **must** consider the LCOE – levelized cost of energy. If the fusion reactor requires that the energy used to fuse *and* make the fuels is greater than or equal to the output of the reactor, then the fusion reactor is a liability and is wasting energy.
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They claim that their Laser Fusion demonstration is working. Uses boron and hydrogen. https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-laser-fusion-demonstration/
There are other videos on YouTube besides JHAT. There is one from Tech for Luddites that states that obtaining a supply of tritium is the problem. Another video by a nuclear physicist says that the ITER **research** project ends in 2040 and another even more expensive project will then go to 2060, which by then
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Sabine explains the difference between nuclear fusion reaction’s Qplasma and Qtotal. There is a huge difference between the two. To put out more power than is needed to keep the reactor running, the output of the fusion reaction must be greater than Qtotal. At the rate the experiments are progressing, it will be many decades
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This video brings reality to the nuclear fusion gamble. He uses not encouraging words like: “This is a common bamboozling tactic that’s frequently used in fusion.” “Unethical, privately funded startup…” “…use the hype to sell their shares for higher than they bought them.” Especially discouraging is the difficulty of breeding tritium. It’s supposedly going to
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