Dennis, Michael Skinner here. -couldn’t you use a black hole to travel in interstellar space? You could use lasers to create a spinning black hole like a top and then you would put it in a trajectory that would get you close to where you want to go but wouldn’t swallow everything. It would be going about one percent the speed of light, and you just orbit it- hitching a ride while adjusting its heading at the leading edge, and yours so you don’t fall in. Basically, treat the mini black hole like a top/frisbee, while it protects you from anything that comes your way. On top of that, you could use it to give you power , in addition to having fusion. You could travel anywhere you wanted to go with near impunity! And you would have additional power on top of fusion and everything else! You could have a whole civilization, travel the stars and comfort. You just just have to protect them from all that radiation and make sure it evaporates (try to keep as much stuff from getting inside as possible, that way you can take advantage of the naked singularity)
Thermal conductivity of FLIBE is 1.1W/mK and lead (Pb) is 35 W/mK. FLIBE is closer to a thermal insulator. It seems it would get hot by absorbing neutrons in a 1 meter thick reservoir and not by thermal conductivity in second layer (next to lead layer) under pressure.
Kinda funny that one of the PhDs working on a FLIBE cooled fusion design is named Sorenson, given that Kirk Sorenson advocates using FLIBE for fission plants. I wonder if they are related.
Strange as this may sound: Looking at the way the design has improved over the last 5 years, I have the feeling that the design is improving faster BECAUSE it is not getting built. Look at ITER, which has become frozen in time since the design was finalised 20 years ago. The ARC design is constantly improving because it’s still on paper and not sitting there waiting for the technicians to actually build it. By the way, why isn’t this design better known? All the public seems to hear about are the old 20th century designs that we all know could never have worked.
ITER was always meant to bog down technological advance of fusion technology in order to provide the powerful an opportunity to shift assets to better suit a fusion based economy and figure out what to do with the population. ARC is brilliant, ask yourself how it’s possible that Investors aren’t tackling each other to place $100m tranches with Dennis when the technology is basically there. Why would that make sense? Congress could sneeze and push this technology across the finish line with the tax dollars they’ve been hemorrhaging of late, why haven’t they?
@@normanspratling8303 Because vast amounts of cheap electricity takes away one of their control mechanisms - namely demand(shortage). Abundant cheap power creates wealth and prosperity which counters the Elites Control.
This is like sending out a sub-light speed mission that will take 40 years to reach the destination but then 20 - 30 years later FTL is developed and that mission actually beats the first mission to destination.
Could ENI use hydrogen from ARCH and CO2 from a carbon-capture technology to manufacture gasoline or jet fuel? If so, then what price would they have to sell for? Would they make more money this way than by buying oil and refining it? :-)
An interesting problem crops up for the element lithium: Li will be used in the coolant for Thorium reactors and for fusion reactors and it's needed to make batteries. Looks like a tug a war coming.
I watched a video on the HTSC magnets and they are limited by the structural strength of stainless steel in fusion operation rather than their Tesla potential. It looks like low teens are the likely operational Tesla unless you use something other than SS for the entire reactor structure, so a commercial level Q without D-T would have that added hurdle
Fusion power is the one way plus wind turbines under water mega power gulf stream .wave action hydro dam power earth heat plasma lightning hi voltage storage to m.i.t hot cell power storage ..semper fi
Dennis, Michael Skinner here.
-couldn’t you use a black hole to travel in interstellar space?
You could use lasers to create a spinning black hole like a top and then you would put it in a trajectory that would get you close to where you want to go but wouldn’t swallow everything.
It would be going about one percent the speed of light, and you just orbit it- hitching a ride while adjusting its heading at the leading edge, and yours so you don’t fall in.
Basically, treat the mini black hole like a top/frisbee, while it protects you from anything that comes your way.
On top of that, you could use it to give you power , in addition to having fusion.
You could travel anywhere you wanted to go with near impunity! And you would have additional power on top of fusion and everything else!
You could have a whole civilization, travel the stars and comfort. You just just have to protect them from all that radiation and make sure it evaporates (try to keep as much stuff from getting inside as possible, that way you can take advantage of the naked singularity)
Really exciting! Great school project
Thermal conductivity of FLIBE is 1.1W/mK and lead (Pb) is 35 W/mK. FLIBE is closer to a thermal insulator. It seems it would get hot by absorbing neutrons in a 1 meter thick reservoir and not by thermal conductivity in second layer (next to lead layer) under pressure.
Great video!
Kinda funny that one of the PhDs working on a FLIBE cooled fusion design is named Sorenson, given that Kirk Sorenson advocates using FLIBE for fission plants. I wonder if they are related.
Lookup Fission Suppressed Fusion Hybrid :)
Strange as this may sound: Looking at the way the design has improved over the last 5 years, I have the feeling that the design is improving faster BECAUSE it is not getting built. Look at ITER, which has become frozen in time since the design was finalised 20 years ago. The ARC design is constantly improving because it’s still on paper and not sitting there waiting for the technicians to actually build it.
By the way, why isn’t this design better known? All the public seems to hear about are the old 20th century designs that we all know could never have worked.
ITER was always meant to bog down technological advance of fusion technology in order to provide the powerful an opportunity to shift assets to better suit a fusion based economy and figure out what to do with the population. ARC is brilliant, ask yourself how it’s possible that Investors aren’t tackling each other to place $100m tranches with Dennis when the technology is basically there. Why would that make sense? Congress could sneeze and push this technology across the finish line with the tax dollars they’ve been hemorrhaging of late, why haven’t they?
@@normanspratling8303 Because vast amounts of cheap electricity takes away one of their control mechanisms - namely demand(shortage). Abundant cheap power creates wealth and prosperity which counters the Elites Control.
Where are the cooling towers on the ammonia-producing ship? It contains a working fusion reactor, so has lots of heat to get rid of. :-)
This is like sending out a sub-light speed mission that will take 40 years to reach the destination but then 20 - 30 years later FTL is developed and that mission actually beats the first mission to destination.
Could carbon nanotubes in the silicon carbide increase its thermal conductivity without raising its radiological profile? :-)
Also, couldn’t wandering black holes, essentially be interstellar travelers? Assuming they can protect themselves from the radiation
Could ENI use hydrogen from ARCH and CO2 from a carbon-capture technology to manufacture gasoline or jet fuel? If so, then what price would they have to sell for? Would they make more money this way than by buying oil and refining it? :-)
An interesting problem crops up for the element lithium: Li will be used in the coolant for Thorium reactors and for fusion reactors and it's needed to make batteries. Looks like a tug a war coming.
So many concerns with 14.1 neutrons. What about D-He3 with 20T+ SC magnets to contain the plasma.
He3 is not an available material on earth, right?
I watched a video on the HTSC magnets and they are limited by the structural strength of stainless steel in fusion operation rather than their Tesla potential. It looks like low teens are the likely operational Tesla unless you use something other than SS for the entire reactor structure, so a commercial level Q without D-T would have that added hurdle
Adding solar panels will cool attics and power electric cars
Fusion power to reduce Methane level will be done
burn one atom at a time. use electrolis to break down and fuse the isotops to helium.
Fusion power is the one way plus wind turbines under water mega power gulf stream
.wave action hydro dam power earth heat plasma lightning hi voltage storage to m.i.t hot cell power storage ..semper fi
SpaceX
Gnight end of data
Reduce world wide Methane global pollution by 2030
Ask Elon musk for money