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Post by JohnV on Oct 4, 2019 17:19:06 GMT
a Dyson sphere is the way to harness a fusion reactor !!! Freeman rules !!!
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Post by patty on Oct 4, 2019 17:35:06 GMT
a Dyson sphere is the way to harness a fusion reactor !!! Freeman rules !!! Is that a fancy hoover?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2019 18:17:45 GMT
a Dyson sphere is the way to harness a fusion reactor !!! Freeman rules !!! Its funny you should mention that, I was going to start building one just as soon as I've got the matter transporter sorted.
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 4, 2019 19:42:49 GMT
What a bunch of miseries. If those of your ilk had their way we'd still be getting fire from lightning strikes and walking everywhere. "Ooh Mr Ugg, that roundy thing will kill millions, stop it with your new fangled gubbinses. And why are you rubbing two sticks together?" "Be patient mr Thicko, you'll see. And I'm about to invent boy scouts to do that for me" If you think British engineering is the pinnacle and spending £220M designing a place to put something nobody can build yet, that will be out of date anyway is money well spent, you're deluded, but then we already knew that. U.K. has been at or near the forefront of fusion reactor design for years. Since you didn’t go to a proper school to learn these things, please have a look at the poor man’s option aka Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culham_Centre_for_Fusion_Energy
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 4, 2019 20:09:49 GMT
If you think British engineering is the pinnacle and spending £220M designing a place to put something nobody can build yet, that will be out of date anyway is money well spent, you're deluded, but then we already knew that. U.K. has been at or near the forefront of fusion reactor design for years. Since you didn’t go to a proper school to learn these things, please have a look at the poor man’s option aka Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culham_Centre_for_Fusion_EnergyIn world terms UK under-resources this kind of thing to the point we might as well not bother. If it comes to the point when building such a thing becomes feasible, other, better resourced nations will leave us for dust. You heard it here first.
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 4, 2019 20:14:33 GMT
In world terms UK under-resources this kind of thing to the point we might as well not bother. If it comes to the point when building such a thing becomes feasible, other, better resourced nations will leave us for dust. You heard it here first. These sort of problems often don’t get solved by throwing money at them as the only tactic. What is required is inventive, clever people. And they are often not particularly expensive. And inventive, clever people is what the U.K. is quite good at.
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 4, 2019 20:15:48 GMT
In world terms UK under-resources this kind of thing to the point we might as well not bother. If it comes to the point when building such a thing becomes feasible, other, better resourced nations will leave us for dust. You heard it here first. These sort of problems often don’t get solved by throwing money at them as the only tactic. What is required is inventive, clever people. And they are often not particularly expensive. And inventive, clever people is what the U.K. is quite good at. We'll see...if we live that long.
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Post by JohnV on Oct 5, 2019 6:26:37 GMT
a Dyson sphere is the way to harness a fusion reactor !!! Freeman rules !!! Its funny you should mention that, I was going to start building one just as soon as I've got the matter transporter sorted. Maybe Larry Niven's "Ringworld" project might be a better starting point
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 5, 2019 9:45:08 GMT
In world terms UK under-resources this kind of thing to the point we might as well not bother. If it comes to the point when building such a thing becomes feasible, other, better resourced nations will leave us for dust. You heard it here first. And inventive, clever people is what the U.K. is quite good at. Exactly.
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Post by Jim on Oct 5, 2019 10:07:59 GMT
And inventive, clever people is what the U.K. is quite good at. Exactly. Yes, quite so. We send the inferior models abroad to up the average.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 11:34:02 GMT
In world terms UK under-resources this kind of thing to the point we might as well not bother. If it comes to the point when building such a thing becomes feasible, other, better resourced nations will leave us for dust. You heard it here first. And inventive, clever people is what the U.K. is quite good at. Not lately.
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Post by bodger on Oct 5, 2019 12:02:20 GMT
Yes, quite so. We send the inferior models abroad to up the average. what a pity they can't take the Daily Mail with them.
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Post by Jim on Oct 5, 2019 12:53:42 GMT
Yes, quite so. We send the inferior models abroad to up the average. what a pity they can't take the Daily Mail with them. It would save us a lot of bother if the online version wasn't available to furriners. The beeb do it after all.
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Post by phil70 on Oct 5, 2019 18:00:11 GMT
funnily enough, I wuz torking to my bruvver about just this today. he is a chartered engineer who has been following the issues that have prevented fusion from becoming a reality. fusion works - it is simple and very powerful - but it only works for a matter of minutes. trouble is that the reaction needs to be contained and no containment material has been found that is not eroded very rapidly by 'sputtering'. he was at a conference at Culham and asked the question and the scientists said it works fine, if only the engineers could design a containment vessel. it works on the surface of the sun - but the sun's gravity acts as the containment, keeping the components in place. the issue has been known for decades, but little or no progress has been made. That reminds me of the story of the brilliant research chemist who perfected a manufacturing process for a universal solvent. He wasn't able to produce or market the stuff because of difficulties with storage containers and it's severely limited shelf life ! During my time as an engineer one job has always stuck in my mind. We had to make a bit of kit to pump abrasive compound through a Tractor power transfer unit, the idea was to highly polish all the oil ways etc etc. But the piston had to be faced with stick on Teflon, and there was the problem, how to stick Teflon . Luckily when we approached 3M they just said "Leave it to us" and they came up with some sort of glue in a very short space of time Phil
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Post by bodger on Oct 5, 2019 19:05:07 GMT
That reminds me of the story of the brilliant research chemist who perfected a manufacturing process for a universal solvent. He wasn't able to produce or market the stuff because of difficulties with storage containers and it's severely limited shelf life ! During my time as an engineer one job has always stuck in my mind. We had to make a bit of kit to pump abrasive compound through a Tractor power transfer unit, the idea was to highly polish all the oil ways etc etc. But the piston had to be faced with stick on Teflon, and there was the problem, how to stick Teflon . Luckily when we approached 3M they just said "Leave it to us" and they came up with some sort of glue in a very short space of time Phil I worked on building Forties A jacket for BP in 1971. We imported huge prefabricated assemblies weighing up to 1,000 tonnes each from Rotterdam, delivered on barges with multi-wheel crawler units to move them onto the site. We had to position them precisely on several small concrete slabs. My job was to test the use of teflon. We developed a method of sticking teflon sheets to the concrete. When we placed the assemblies on the pads we could move them a centimetre at a time just by nudging them with a bulldozer.
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