/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.15464486]

>Current orbit
>Humans still using their goo reactors to boil water
FUCKING LOL

[Anonymous No.15464495]

>>15464486
>nuclear power exists
>still using fossil fuels

[Anonymous No.15464506]

>>15464486
It's high efficiency tho

[Anonymous No.15464512]

>>15464486
The difference is that my technology is real.

[Anonymous No.15464631]

>>15464486
Cool pic. Here’s an HD version.

[Anonymous No.15464637]

>>15464486
Gas turbines and internal combustion engines and turbines dont boil water

[Anonymous No.15464641]

[Anonymous No.15464650]

>>15464486
2035: Mankind develops steam-fusion wormhole technology
2050: First contact with alien life results in the Great Steam Wars
2100: Interdimensional steam weapons of mass destruction eradicate alien menace
2120: Intergalactic Steam Hegemony of Man ushers in new golden steam age

[Anonymous No.15465518]

>>15464641
Go take the vaccine now, it will make you less retarded than you already are.

[Anonymous No.15465519]

>>15464486
It is some of the most advanced possible technology in the universe.
Really it's a miracle we figured it out at all when we were basically still monkes in every other field.

[VIRUSES DON'T EXIST No.15465563]

>>15464512
sorry to disappoint you, but UFOs are real. issue is fossil fuels can be controlled by globohomo, and therefore they control you, no matter how many guns you own.

[Anonymous No.15465590]

Someone ban this namefag already. Consistently sewer tier posts

[Anonymous No.15465593]

>>15465590
based

[VIRUSES DON'T EXIST No.15465647]

>>15465590
>>15465593
samefag shill

[Anonymous No.15465664]

>>15465647
dilate

[VIRUSES DON'T EXIST No.15465718]

>>15465664
you are paid by the same boss. or you use different proxy for different browsers. dilate.

[Anonymous No.15466133]

>>15464486
We conquered the planet with steam engines, you are a faget

[Anonymous No.15466137]

>>15464637
could be a reference to nuclear power plants using water for cooling. Or that the power generated we use to boil water at home

[Anonymous No.15466229]

>>15464486
For real though, what do the people that make these images think we'll be using for energy one day? Harrypotterium-powered reactors?
We've drilled down to the motherfucking nucleus of the atom, to the fundamental building blocks of matter, to extract energy. How much deeper do these "dude clean energy LMAO" types think we can go?

[Anonymous No.15466244]

>>15466137
No, i know exactly what it means. Its the retarded joke that all our power generation has to boil water when it clearly isnt true.

[Anonymous No.15467108]

>>15464486
>Ressource avaible everywhere
>Perfect thermal conductor
>Can suck a lot of heat by phase transformation to gas
What else do you need? Transfer the heat with some meme high temperature copper alloys instead?

[Anonymous No.15467122]

>>15466229
Only option is fusion meme.
>always going to be more complicated (=expensive)
>always gonna have much lower power density
>still produce loads of radiations
>still produce high level waste

[Anonymous No.15469151]

>>15467122
>>still produce high level waste
that's fission. the whole point of fusion is you take two things and force them together into one. you end up with less stuff than you started and therefore less radioactive particles to explode all over the place.
like where do you think radiation comes from? it comes from obliterating the parts of the atom that would instead be producing helium in a fusion reaction.

[Anonymous No.15469316]

>>15467122
Fusion will still power steam turbines you dotard.

#pwnage
#rektandshrekt

[Anonymous No.15471173]

>>15469151
>like where do you think radiation comes from? it comes from obliterating the parts of the atom that would instead be producing helium in a fusion reaction.
Look man you obviously absorbed your understanding of fusion from popsci. Yes combining atoms create tons of radiation. If it was just gamma rays that would be fine but it releases high energy neutrons too, it's not all nucleons that end up producing ash. Deuterium-Tritium, Deuterium-Deuterium, proton-proton like the Sun it doesn't matter. Helium-3 does as well but less so. I think there's one mechanism that is truly aneutronic (proton-lithium?) but it produces far, far less energy. Generally alternatives to deuterium-tritium have loads of different drawbacks so that's why all the major researchers focus on t-d for power generation.
So turns out if it didn't produce neutrons (pure) fusion would be even less workable because there wouldn't be any way for the reactor to breed its own tritium.
Now if everything inside the reactor chamber is being rekt by neutrons it's all going to be turned into med-level waste by the end of its lifespan all the elements in the shielding, cooling tubes, coils etc get transmuted into radioactive shit.
But this is STILL not enough because the neutron stoichiometry of reaction/breeding doesn't balance out, so you'll also need some sort of fuel breeding blanket (beryllium/lithium) to get even more neutrons before they then breed enough fuel so the whole system can be self sustaining. If of course a positive engineering gain is achievable.
Now, the "high level" waste part. I made it the fuck up. It's just that the breeding blanket will be fucking radioactive even after removing all the tritium but I have no idea by how much or for how long.

[Anonymous No.15471181]

>>15471173
>all the elements
some fraction of course, just meant all the parts inside the reactor will be subject this problem to a lesser or greater extent

[Anonymous No.15471235]

>>15464495
Thanks capitalism

[Anonymous No.15471257]

>>15471235
the soviets weren't capitalists. it's their fucking fault.

[VIRUSES DON'T EXIST No.15471547]

>>15471257
Soviets were colony of capitalists. USA industrialized them, built machinery, plants. Stalin was globohomo puppet. cold war is war against own population using meds.