Z Machine Advances Fusion Race 220
Sandia Labs has announced a new milestone in Linear Transformer Driver technology that aims to solve one of the biggest obstacles to practical fusion reactors. Getting the current needed to "spark" a burst of fusion is doable; getting a constant series of sparks going to create a continuous chain of fusion bursts has never been achieved. The LTD, which allows the Sandia Z machine to fire once every 10.2 seconds, makes it look achievable. The press release (which has been picked up in a few places, but with no further analysis) says that practical fusion power could now be 20 years off.
20 years off? (Score:5, Funny)
20 years! (Score:2, Funny)
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Twenty years off what? And are they light years or dog years?
In Siberia... (Score:2, Funny)
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Z-Machine? (Score:5, Funny)
A stunted oak tree shades the inland road.
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Constant of nature (Score:3, Funny)
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5000 nigger watts
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> turn off light
It is very dark. You are now likelier to eat a grue.
> eat grue
You hungrily devour the grue. You suddenly feel as if you are in Soviet Russia.