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

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[–] troybot@midwest.social 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Hedup@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (1 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 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago

kinda our thing my guy

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 21 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 12 points 12 hours ago

That's just boiling different water

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's all just boiling water...

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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 1 points 8 minutes ago

Boil thing... to make turbine spin.

We only have spinny thing and solar.