CommieChipmunk
Member
+488|6996|Portland, OR, USA

DrunkFace wrote:

Spark wrote:

The dumbest four-year-old knows that a cloudy day is COLDER than a sunny day...
A cloudy night is warmer then a clear night...
Because clouds keep the warmth in when normally the warm air would rise above into the atmosphere.  In inverse occurs when the sun is out..
Gawwad
My way or Haddaway!
+212|7111|Espoo, Finland

Mek-Izzle wrote:

I can't wait until we perfect Fusion Power.
You better be patient. As far as I remember a fusion rection requires a temperature of 10million Kelvins to start, so we're FAR from producing any energy with it.
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|7101|Canberra, AUS

Gawwad wrote:

Mek-Izzle wrote:

I can't wait until we perfect Fusion Power.
You better be patient. As far as I remember a fusion rection requires a temperature of 10million Kelvins to start, so we're FAR from producing any energy with it.
Experiments are on going, but yes, that is a problem. Right now the most effective way to achieve such temperatures is by... surprise, surprise, fission. But you do have the problem of a powerplant turning into a thermonuclear bomb, which is why they use much more expensive, less efficient methods. I would give it three decades before we get enough fusion to power a country.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Hunter/Jumper
Member
+117|6781

Spark wrote:

Hunter/Jumper wrote:

Global Warming  warming is the 1992 Homelessness issue of 2008. When a Democrat got elected we never heard  again of Homelessness. Come to think of it they never spoke of health care from 1992 till 2000. why is that ?

I almost hope a democrat wins just so the media will stfu for 8 years.
You keep telling yourself that.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are moving on.
in circles . . .
SenorToenails
Veritas et Scientia
+444|6557|North Tonawanda, NY

Spark wrote:

Experiments are on going, but yes, that is a problem. Right now the most effective way to achieve such temperatures is by... surprise, surprise, fission. But you do have the problem of a powerplant turning into a thermonuclear bomb, which is why they use much more expensive, less efficient methods. I would give it three decades before we get enough fusion to power a country.
I wouldn't make any time estimates time until scientists manage to get a net energy gain from fusion.  As far as I know, this has yet to occur.

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