#hydrogen fusion

[somerunner]

It's so sad that Steve Jobs died of commerically-viable hydrogen fusion being perpetually 20 years away

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I’m high on cold medicine right now and I think I just perfected the concept of cold fusion.

So, hydrogen atoms usually repel one another, and the only way to get them to fuse is to increase the temperature and pressure like inside the core of a star. When they’re close enough, they may spontaneously fuse into helium. But, scientists have discovered a way of getting the helium atoms close enough under standard temperatures and pressures by using muons.

A muon is just a super heavy electron. By replacing the electron around a hydrogen atom with a muon, the atoms can get much much much closer together, making fusion possible at room temperature. Usually when a muon helps hydrogen atoms fuse, it gets ejected from the resultant helium atom and can attach itself to more hydrogen to facilitate even more fusion. It’s chain reaction, but the problem is that muons don’t last very long, and they lose a ton of energy and get stuck to the helium after a couple hundred fusions. It takes a lot of energy to create a muon, but each muon can only generate about half that energy in fusion, making it a net loss.

Generating muons on Earth is difficult, but we can detect muons bombarding the Earth from space! These can’t be used for fusion because there’s no way to collect them and channel them into a reactor, but the fact that we can detect them at all is an anomaly. The Earth’s atmosphere is so thick, and muons decay after so little time, that they shouldn’t ever be able to reach the ground and be detected. They should decay miles above the surface, but somehow we can detect them down here anyway.

It turns out that when muons travel at close to the speed of light, they experience time dilation, or distance contraction: space actually gets smaller for them, they can travel longer distances in the same amount of time, allowing them to pass through the atmosphere and hit our detectors before they decay.

If we could accelerate muons to close to the speed of light and bombard hydrogen with them, each muon would last longer and facilitate more fusions before getting stuck and decaying. But muons are heavy, so getting them going that fast would require even more energy, so I don’t know if the extra fusion would make up for it. I’m not a physicist, or a chemist, I don’t know things.

Scientists should at least try this. High-energy muons could crack cold fusion.

Where’s my Nobel Prize?

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

No more alien invasion stories that are just analogies for American resource wars.  Aliens wouldn’t travel hundreds of lightyears just to bleed our planet dry; what could they possibly get from Earth that they couldn’t get from any star?  If they have technology advanced enough to cross the cosmos, then surely they’re capable of fusion power.  Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, every asteroid and dead space rock is rich with iron and silicon and oxygen and carbon.  Anything they need, they could take from any other source besides inhabited planets, which are few and far between in the grand scheme of things.

[somerunner]

Man I love the CNO cycle. Very cool. I mean hot. A star gets so massive that it not only has a lot of fusion by economies of scale (well, I mean, by the core being bigger than, say, brown or red dwarves, which isn't exactly an economy of scale but bear with me) -- but its very process of fusing hydrogen gets replaced (okay, outcompeted) with a better method with a higher minimum temperature.

Like fusion is already extremely good at releasing energy, but it starts off rare. Then it gets easier to do as things get hotter. Like, idk, some kind of idle game.

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Electrolytic Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma in a Resonant Cavity

Update to Project Proteus. Harmonic Hydrogen Fusion Experiment

Author: Diadon AcsConscious Energies Labs 2019 February, 2nd (updated November 5th 2022)Creative Commons License by Conscious Energies Labs This document is licensed creative commons and is an open source document for the aims of abundant power utility to the earth.  Research and Development by www.conscious.energy dba Conscious Energies llc Abstract: To induce a plasma in a hydrogen dense…

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Nuclear Fusion.. what is it?

Nuclear Fusion.. what is it?

By Diadon Acs Have you ever looked up at the sun and wondered, how is that even possible? Well, be careful because looking at the sun can seriously hurt your eyes! This article will be my first attempt to cover what Hydrogen Fusion is and how it is a game changer for clean energy technology. It’s pretty simple, just do what the stars do to create heat and light. Well, simple in theory but not…

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