EnergyUnlimited wrote:Tanada,
I do not see much room for advancement in power generation by burning of FF or by conventional nuclear technology.
These are all based on boiling water to produce steam and run turbines and heat exchanger or turbine designs are already about as good as they can be.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:EnergyUnlimited wrote:Tanada,
I do not see much room for advancement in power generation by burning of FF or by conventional nuclear technology.
These are all based on boiling water to produce steam and run turbines and heat exchanger or turbine designs are already about as good as they can be.
I am not talking about boiling water and using steam turbines, I am talking about fuel consumption in modern reactors with very high conversion ratio's approaching unity. We now have the technology to produce as much fuel as we consume, with either Thorium/U-233 cycle or Uranium/Pu-239-241 cycle. Therefor there IS no Uranium shortage, at least not for the modern reactors now being built or planned to be built.
Nah, they waste their time on frivolous crackpot inventions like the WWW.Carlhole wrote:Who here actually believes experiments like NIF, Cern, ITER, etc. won't lead to important basic discoveries?
frankthetank wrote:Thorium? Anyone? Can we please start at least thinking about switching...
dukey wrote:im looking forward to our money disappearing into a black hole
hardtootell-2 wrote:Link S.v.p.?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Physicists measure the energy of the hair's-width beams, not their speed, because the protons are already traveling close to the speed of light and cannot go much faster.
One proton at 1 TeV is about the energy of the motion of a flying mosquito. When a beam is fully packed with 300,000 billion protons with 7 TeV energy – the goal of the LHC – it is like an aircraft carrier traveling at 20 knots. That is why the scientists are carefully learning how to run it and make sure all protection systems are working, said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The power level reached Monday isn't significantly higher than Fermilab's. More significant advances are expected during the first half of next year when the LHC plans to raise each beam to 3.5 TeV in preparation for experiments create conditions like those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.
Physicists hope that will help them understand suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and supersymmetry and, ultimately, the creation of the universe billions of years ago.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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