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Cheap Tabletop Fusion Reactor

xander | 11:53 AM
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Purdue scientists have produced a cheap tabletop fusion reactor, that extracts fuel from seawater and uses sound waves to ignite the reaction.
For the same unit mass of fuel, a fusion power plant would produce 10 times more energy than a fission reactor, and because deuterium is contained in seawater, a fusion reactor's fuel supply would be virtually infinite. A cubic kilometer of seawater would contain enough heavy hydrogen to provide a thousand years' worth of power for the United States.

Tabletop fusion: check. Now, where's my skycar?

[ Link via Purdue University ]

Comments

My dad used to know this guy who would take his helicopter into work every day instead of driving. He was working out of state, and the university, CSULA, had a heliport on top of one of the buildings.

Posted by: nym at April 14, 2006 12:20 PM

Hmm, wonder if I could get my company to shell out for an ultralight and some rooftop space rental...
Goodbye rush hour ;)

Posted by: xander at April 14, 2006 12:30 PM

this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminesence ?

Posted by: tetsuharu at April 19, 2006 12:40 PM
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