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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Proposed designs for DEMO have it running feedwater through the walls of the tokamak shielding to fuel a boiler

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[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

kinda our thing my guy

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

Not fuzzy enough. Can someone compress this a few more times?

[–] troybot@midwest.social 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe have a bunch of solar panels facing the nuclear fusion reactor?

[–] Hedup@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maybe we should launch the nuclear fusion reactor into orbit where it circles the earth, so that panels can wirelessly receive its energy anywhere in the world for half a day?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard" -- Nicolaus Copernicus, probably

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org -1 points 1 month ago

That's just creating global warming with extra steps.

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's all just boiling water...

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Except solar, wind and hydro (huh, all the renewables) but yeah, I had to laugh when I found out most the means of electricity generation we have are just variations of steam.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago

Boil thing... to make turbine spin.

We only have spinny thing and solar.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saw a thing about boiling supercritical CO2 to drove a low temperature turbune the other day.

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago

That's just boiling different water