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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 32 points 1 month ago

kinda our thing my guy

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

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

[–] troybot@midwest.social 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Hedup@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month 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 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

That's just creating global warming with extra steps.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 19 points 1 month ago

That's just boiling different water

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's all just boiling water...

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

Boil thing... to make turbine spin.

We only have spinny thing and solar.