Science: Everything explained by PV=nRT, F=ma=Gm(1)•m(2)/r^2

[Kepler]

[Kepler]

This unfortunate man is going to have a brief, painful life.

[Kepler]

This is worth the 30 minutes of your life.

[dxmnkd316]

Oh retiring from the glitter thing

yeah.

[Kepler]

He's retiring?

He said this is his last one. TBH it has gotten way out of hand.

[dxmnkd316]

He's retiring?

[Kepler]

I know this is engineering, not science, but still it's amazing and too bad Mark Rober is retiring.

[Kepler]

The hardest part is first ignition.

Middle school, a terror for us all.

[TalonsUpPuckDown]

Side note - TIL that there's a national lab in Livermore. That sure helps explain a lot about that town though, including why there were so many ragey BMW drivers there.

One of my all time favorite books from an early technology hero is The Cukoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll. The real-life story takes place at Livermore back in the late 80's.

https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-T.../dp/1416507787

[MichVandal]

The hardest part is first ignition.

Might be the hardest part, but imagine trying to remove heat from an object that is +10M deg C without breaking down the surfaces. Everything about fusion is hard.

Oh, and then maintaining the fusion... that's hard, too. Really hard.

[dxmnkd316]

What I've read about the event- it was very important but not quite the goal- they need to have it really ignite and sustain fusion. They got it started, next step is to use all of the fuel.

Then the hard parts... extracting the energy output.

Given all of the various projects going on, it sure appears that we finally are 10 years away from real fusion reactors.

The hardest part is first ignition.

[ScoobyDoo]

Jesus. What a sour article. Scoob, they get you on staff and tell you to write about fusion if it were Minnesota sports?

LOL. No, no one wants me writing for them. I suck at it.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Side note - TIL that there's a national lab in Livermore. That sure helps explain a lot about that town though, including why there were so many ragey BMW drivers there.

[MichVandal]

What I've read about the event- it was very important but not quite the goal- they need to have it really ignite and sustain fusion. They got it started, next step is to use all of the fuel.

Then the hard parts... extracting the energy output.

Given all of the various projects going on, it sure appears that we finally are 10 years away from real fusion reactors.

[dxmnkd316]

From The Atlantic:

Jesus. What a sour article. Scoob, they get you on staff and tell you to write about fusion if it were Minnesota sports?