Scientists successfully replicate nuclear fusion reaction at least 3 times...on the verge of a massive breakthrough that could change everything

[BackInTheGame78]

This would be the holy Grail science has been searching for in terms of energy production...a near limitless source of energy whose reaction creates more energy than it uses and leaves behind no nuclear radioactive waste. All from something the size of a peppercorn.

Would immediately make all fossil fuels obsolete in terms of running power plants, which are still heavily used in many countries these days.

Feels like we are about to enter a new age of Humankind soon with so many massive breakthroughs about to happen or starting to happen...

Nuclear Fusion
Quantum Computing/Physics
Room temperature superconductors
Gene Editing to wipe out diseases(FDA Approved a gene treatment to cure sickle cell anemia earlier this month)
Advances in solar technology
An AI powered world and all the advances that will come from AI powered technological advances/findings/modeling

Couple that with the strange timing that all of this coincides with the Pentagon finally reversing course and admitting UAP's/UFO's are real and releasing videos and data on them along with other governments around the world...almost seems like we are heading towards a new age where our understanding of reality is going to change rapidly over the coming years and we are being slowly spoonfed little doses of this at a time so as not to overload us all at once.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/20/climate/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough-replicate-climate/index.html

 

[sangheilios]

Interesting to see that what I have been discussing on this forum, and at times getting criticism for it, is starting to take shape lol.

Your comment about the masses/public being spoon-fed things is an interesting idea and something I believe is true. A very long time ago I had this conversation with someone who had a theory that movies and other forms of entertainment in mainstream media were often designed to prepare us or what is to come. A very good example of this is the movie I-Robot, which came out in 2004 and is almost 20 years old as I write this. Look at what the sentient robots look like in that film, very human like faces and a blue cranium. Not that long ago there was a humanoid robot called Ameca that was revealed to the public, it had facial expressions, could speak, etc. It looks near exactly like a robot from that movie lol, even had the blue cranium.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, the next few decades are going to be wild and I believe many people will struggle to keep up and adapt to the changes that will take place.

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

Boundless energy makes the previously impossible possible—Star Trek style. Imagine being able to live in the pursuit of knowledge...

"Free energy" as has been noted, will change everything. I'm wondering where to sign up for my DeLorean.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Nerds don't get laid. This thread should be deleted.

 

[corrector]

What about finding a stable isotope for Element 115 that doesn't degrade in a fraction of a second to use as anti-matter fuel?
Zero-point energy? Quantum anti-matter engines powerful enough to bend gravity and space/time and create wormholes?

The list goes on.

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

Nerds don't get laid. This thread should be deleted.

Surely, you jest.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

Now if only they can find a way to make these reactions last more than a minute or two. It's difficult when you're dealing with literal billions of degrees.

Without the intense gravity of a star, nuclear fusion is only possible with extreme heat. Both obviously get hot, but the sun is not as hot as what's happening inside these containment modules. Material degradation is a real doozy to deal with.

Willing to bet a compound that's found will have been created from AI "recipes".

They have started turning to AI to model the creation of new compounds and it's already given them quite a few for various different industries.

Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials

Tool from Google DeepMind predicts nearly 400,000 stable substances, and an autonomous system learns to make them in the lab.

www.nature.com

 

[Scaramouche]

Hi BackInTheGame,
You post some really great material....The Stanley steamer was crushed by Oil incorporated if this can be commercially exploited the patents will be
taken out by this generations oligarchs and allowed to run or perhaps not depending on their still being able to extract the maximum amount of profit...Corrector has a good point on Antimatter....I wont see it and perhaps neither will you.

 

[AmsterdamAssassin]

Surely, you jest.

Don't call him Shirley

 

[BillyPilgrim]

almost seems like we are heading towards a new age where our understanding of reality is going to change rapidly over the coming years and we are being slowly spoonfed little doses of this at a time so as not to overload us all at once.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/20/climate/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough-replicate-climate/index.html

Imo it's more to *limit* the overload as it's inevitable to some degree. Not just ufo's and et's, but human origins and history, the fact we've been ruled by a hostile, perverted elite who designed progressivism for pernicious ends, and as you suggest the very nature of reality itself, but on a more pervasive level of impact.

B1tches going to be trippin'

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

It’s interesting if you look at the technology patents that have been acquired by the petroleum (energy) megacorps, some would say they buy the patents and technology advances and bury them. I remember reading about this a long time ago. I’ll see if I can find any links.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

It’s interesting if you look at the technology patents that have been acquired by the petroleum (energy) megacorps, some would say they buy the patents and technology advances and bury them. I remember reading about this a long time ago. I’ll see if I can find any links.

I believe quite a few were related to more efficient internal combustion engines or new types of engines that were multiple times more efficient which would have greatly reduced the need for oil since cars would get many more miles to the gallon than they do currently.

 

[MatureDJ]

What about finding a stable isotope for Element 115 that doesn't degrade in a fraction of a second to use as anti-matter fuel?
Zero-point energy? Quantum anti-matter engines powerful enough to bend gravity and space/time and create wormholes?

The list goes on.

It's SOON OVER for Element115NucleusCels.

 

[MatureDJ]

Feels like we are about to enter a new age of Humankind soon with so many massive breakthroughs about to happen or starting to happen...

Nuclear Fusion
Quantum Computing/Physics
Room temperature superconductors
Gene Editing to wipe out diseases(FDA Approved a gene treatment to cure sickle cell anemia earlier this month)
Advances in solar technology
An AI powered world and all the advances that will come from AI powered technological advances/findings/modeling

Couple that with the strange timing that all of this coincides with the Pentagon finally reversing course and admitting UAP's/UFO's are real and releasing videos and data on them along with other governments around the world...almost seems like we are heading towards a new age where our understanding of reality is going to change rapidly over the coming years and we are being slowly spoonfed little doses of this at a time so as not to overload us all at once.

I'm of the "I'll believe it when I see it" persuasion, but yes, economically feasible fusion energy would be monumental. As for the UFOs, they exist, but they aren't from E.T. (although Oumuamua might have been ); I think the UFO phenomena are all super-secret defense technology research (and trying to suss out such from our adversaries), including cyber-warfare with defense systems.

Of course, the human sexual dialectic had not evolved to deal with a hyper-productive economic system, but rather the system of might-makes-right conquest - and our particular sexual dystopia that we have developed into is simply a consequence of this major change to the human condition.

 

[MatureDJ]

It’s interesting if you look at the technology patents that have been acquired by the petroleum (energy) megacorps, some would say they buy the patents and technology advances and bury them. I remember reading about this a long time ago. I’ll see if I can find any links.

I think if any Big Oil company had the Golden Goose, that would be worth far more than the capitalization of the company as a pure fossil-fuel company, so your contention does not make sense, at least for companies in the developed world (I could see the Saudis buying those patents to bury them).

 

[MatureDJ]

Now if only they can find a way to make these reactions last more than a minute or two. It's difficult when you're dealing with literal billions of degrees.

Without the intense gravity of a star, nuclear fusion is only possible with extreme heat. Both obviously get hot, but the sun is not as hot as what's happening inside these containment modules. Material degradation is a real doozy to deal with.

Part and parcel of the extreme heat is extreme pressure (think of the Ideal Gas Law), which leads to high density, all of which leads to fusion taking place. This can only be done with extreme magnetic fields, and extreme magnetic fields can only be generated by extreme electrical currents, and such extreme electrical currents can only take place, without extreme heating, in a superconductor.

 

[Pierce Manhammer]

In the scenario discussed above it’s the same with the US driving the exploitation of non-US petroleum reserves, because they are a finite resource, the US could supply itself with its own yet to be exploited oil fields, but it’s better to use other people’s first.

In other words the petrochemical corps already own the oil fields and have monopolies - and technology in place to exploit them. It would make sense to ride that until it was depleted, then exploit cheaper sources for which they hold the patents.

 

[MatureDJ]

I believe quite a few were related to more efficient internal combustion engines or new types of engines that were multiple times more efficient which would have greatly reduced the need for oil since cars would get many more miles to the gallon than they do currently.

The problem with ICE efficiency is that the top theoretical thermal efficiency (i.e., the ability to generate mechanical work from heat) is dependent on the ratio of the high & low temperature sinks (the high one being the combustion temperature, and the low one being the ambient air going through the radiator) and the efficiency of getting rid of the excess heat. Obviously, the electric utility's power plant has the ability to get rid of this excess heat much better than a car engine - but it weighs much, much, much more, LOL.

The best way to improve an ICE efficiency is to use a turbocharger to essentially make the whole thermodynamic cycle operate at a higher pressure; unfortunately, that necessitates fuel with a higher octane rating, which is more expensive to produce. The Wankel engine (pronounced "vahn-kel" ) uses ingenious geometry to achieve less inertial forces (i.e., the piston being accelerated), but there's no way to get around the fact that oil must be burned for the whole thing to work. There might be some small gains to be had by using a fuel recipe that burns at a higher temperature, but that fuel costs a lot more (and is only feasible for car races), and the metal needs to be stronger at higher temperature (even more expensive). I personally think that ICEs have pretty much run out their economically feasible course.

 

[MatureDJ]

Hi BackInTheGame,
You post some really great material....The Stanley steamer was crushed by Oil incorporated if this can be commercially exploited the patents will be
taken out by this generations oligarchs and allowed to run or perhaps not depending on their still being able to extract the maximum amount of profit...Corrector has a good point on Antimatter....I wont see it and perhaps neither will you.

The Stanley Steamer ran on coal heating up water to steam, and then run through to expand a piston. An ICE creates its own gas to expand the piston - it's far more efficient on the scale of a car engine, although a thermal power plant, with its very efficient turbines and heat exchangers, beats them all.

 

[MatureDJ]

What about finding a stable isotope for Element 115 that doesn't degrade in a fraction of a second to use as anti-matter fuel?
Zero-point energy? Quantum anti-matter engines powerful enough to bend gravity and space/time and create wormholes?

The list goes on.

Anti-matter is a physicists' construct to describe a vesicle for pure energy; there is no way that any large amount could ever be tamed, since a property of anti-matter is that upon interacting with regular matter, there is total annihilation of both.

My understanding of wormholes is that it can exist at the level of quantum physics, but, like anti-matter, it cannot happen in any large amount of material (a few atoms would be a "large amount" here). That said, it is possible for an object to experience time at a slower rate than the pile of objects from which it was at rest with, but that would require an extraordinary amount of energy to propel the object to a speed on the order of the speed of light. That that said, a humongous laser beam could propel a tiny object to that speed.

Zero-point energy is arguably the most important concept in modern physics; it is the phenomenon that is behind ideas of the cosmological constant and dark energy, and some cosmologists have proposed that zero-point energy caused the Big Bang in way similar to a rogue wave at sea.