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Proposed designs for DEMO have it running feedwater through the walls of the tokamak shielding to fuel a boiler

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Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 190d

kinda our thing my guy

pebbles@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 190d

Not fuzzy enough. Can someone compress this a few more times?

troybot@midwest.social · 22 pts · 190d (3 replies)

Maybe have a bunch of solar panels facing the nuclear fusion reactor?

Hedup@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 190d (2 replies)

Maybe we should launch the nuclear fusion reactor into orbit where it circles the earth, so that panels can wirelessly receive its energy anywhere in the world for half a day?

grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 190d

"That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard" -- Nicolaus Copernicus, probably

Gladaed@feddit.org · 0 pts · 159d

That's just creating global warming with extra steps.

dumbass@piefed.social · 11 pts · 190d (2 replies)

It's all just boiling water...

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 190d (1 reply)

Except solar, wind and hydro (huh, all the renewables) but yeah, I had to laugh when I found out most the means of electricity generation we have are just variations of steam.

far_university1990@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 189d

Boil thing... to make turbine spin.

We only have spinny thing and solar.

rbos@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 190d (1 reply)

I saw a thing about boiling supercritical CO2 to drove a low temperature turbune the other day.

Localhorst86@feddit.org · 18 pts · 190d

That's just boiling different water