/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4004492]

http://vimeo.com/17566836
For three years Dr Jonathan Howard has dedicated himself to finding a solution to our energy crisis. In the spare room of his South London flat he's constructed a fusion reactor from bits of recycled scrap, and parts bought from ebay.
He ends up getting radiation poisoning... Not a bad watch for a 20 minute brief summary of the guy and what he does.

Does /sci/ have any documentaries that are about specific people or projects. I'm tired of the typical tesla, einstein, crazy math equation, and quantum videos. I want to sw what current research is going on and the people behind it.

[Anonymous No.4004528]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFiJb2UhzqY

Happening almost literally "right now".

Andreas Rossi (Energy Catalyst, Low Energy Nuclear Reactor)

I'm still skeptical, but worth watching.

[Anonymous No.4004546]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRTPFXZMtOY

[Lunatic !!h/HxpkvWDAR No.4004552]

>>4004492
Radiation poisoning? Awesome! That must mean he's generating neutrons at a very high rate!

[Anonymous No.4004562]

>>4004546
represent anything with just ⑨ numbers. Gentlemen, this man might just be a genius.

[Anonymous No.4004568]

>>4004552
Or he could just have accidentally inhaled tritium

[Anonymous No.4004573]

>>4004568
>accidentally inhaled tritium
>accidentally
lol

[Anonymous No.4004575]

He made a neutron source, among other radiation products.

BIG FUCKING DEAL.

He didn't make a fusion reactor that SUSTAINS THE REACTION. Nobody has, and nobody can, since the ONLY place in the universe where that occurs in within stars, the smallest one that fuses is about 13 times smaller than our own star (about 75 Jupiter masses), hence about one-hundred-thousand trillion trillion kilograms. Only massive quantities of mass in ONE PLACE achieve sustained fusion.

It's time to stop chasing the Fusion Boondoggle before we blow through more billions to support the welfare queens in the scientific community.

[Anonymous No.4004576]

>>4004573
what

[Anonymous No.4004632]

>>4004576

[Anonymous No.4004641]

>>4004632

[Anonymous No.4004653]

he got soft x-rays, you faggots

you can do that with any vacuum and high voltage source. it's just high-energy electrons colliding with the cathode atoms causing ground-state electrons to be knocked off so higher-energy electrons fall down and emit x-rays.

i've done it, it's pretty nice if you have a geiger counter, seeing the fucker's needle pin on the max.

you also get a tingle all over your body, as the x-rays easily ionize air molecules which cause free electrons to hit you.

you're a pussy if you can't take x-rays (like that faggot who thinks he's going to get fusion out of a fucking fusor with heavy hydrogen)

pic related, it's an x-ray tube

inb4 i'm an insane mad idiot shit eater, i'm sterilized, will die, etc.

[Anonymous No.4004836]

hey thats a torus design just like what iron man used in the film.

[Anonymous No.4004661]

>>4004653
wow you fucking idiot you should be arrested

you're giving your neighbors cancer you faggot it's ionizing you stupid piece of shit

[Anonymous No.4004664]

>>4004653
>>4004661
samefag

[Anonymous No.4004669]

>>4004661
>he thinks x-rays are harmful
>he thinks x-rays do anything besides inflame skin temporarily like sunburn would
>mfw i knew this would happen as /sci/ is full of circle-jerking safety faggots who are afraid of a 9V battery

[Anonymous No.4004673]

>>4004575
The guy obviously knows he is not going to get an energy sustainable reaction. He clearly states it in the video. He is just doing it as a hobby and because he enjoys it.

[Anonymous No.4004674]

>>4004664
>>4004661
>>4004653
samefag

[Anonymous No.4004677]

>>4004653

You play with ionizing radiation.

You gulp down massive Black penises like a champ.

careless with ionizing radiation = FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.4004681]

>>4004677
>he thinks x-rays are harmful

>>4004674
>>4004664
samefag

[Anonymous No.4004690]

>>4004688
>>4004681
>>4004674
>>4004664
>>4004661
>>4004653
samefag

[Anonymous No.4004687]

>>4004653
Can you x-ray objects?

[Anonymous No.4004696]

>>4004690
self reference fail

[Anonymous No.4004697]

>>4004696
>>4004690
samefag

[Anonymous No.4004704]

>>4004687
nope. just have a tube, nothing else.

[Lunatic !!h/HxpkvWDAR No.4004713]

>>4004653
Wow, glowing glass.

Also, what sort of Geiger counter are you using? A CDV model by any chance? Does your geiger counter ever read zero when the X-ray source is on by any chance?

[Anonymous No.4004898]

wondering about OP's transformer gif, is it supposed to be considered a joke? It looks like someone doesn't know what they're doing, this just from an amplifier repair fag who deals with various transformers and their windings quite often and avoids radiation poisoning...

[Lunatic !!h/HxpkvWDAR No.4004718]

>>4004704
You've got a fucking tube, all you need to do x-ray photography is film really.

[Anonymous No.4004731]

>>4004713
FAG Kugelfischer SV500

it's old, german - works great with soft/hard x-rays, though.

>Does your geiger counter ever read zero when the X-ray source is on by any chance?
as my tube has a hot cathode, as the cathode heats up, it stays at background levels, then rises rapidly

[Anonymous No.4004741]

>>4004718
>implying expensive film
>implying not having to build a chamber

[Anonymous No.4004922]

>>4004575
Actually, fun fact: Jupiter outputs an order of magnitude more energy than it receives. Going by experimentally observed values, there's not significant differences between what a star and a gas giant filled with lots of light gas. Jupiter's filled with some heavier gasses yeah, and it wouldn't get very far, but all observations suggest fusion.

[Anonymous No.4004935]

OP. try

> David Charles Hahn (born October 30, 1976), also called the
> "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout", is an
> American who attempted to build a homemade breeder
> nuclear reactor in 1994, at age 17.

[Lunatic !!h/HxpkvWDAR No.4004762]

>>4004731
Damn, that's pretty high spec Geiger counter.

Just wondering if you were saturating out your tube. If you are, you've got a problem.

>>4004741
http://www.noah.org/science/x-ray/stong/
pic related

[Anonymous No.4005009]

>>4004653
holy fuck is the blue shit electrons?

[Anonymous No.4005047]

>>4004898
Fuck no, that's part of a diagram explaining the workings of a fusion reactor.

[Anonymous No.4005058]

>>4005009
no, that's the glass fluorescing due to X-ray excitation. If you ever put a small lightbulb on a tesla coil and the glass start glowing, congratulations! You're iraddiating your self with X-rays!

[Anonymous No.4005065]

>>4004922
Bro give a citation on that shit.

[Anonymous No.4005147]

>>4004718
To take X-rays, you actually need an x-ray machine. The film is usually regular old blue or blue-green sensitive film. The machine responds to x-rays and spits out visible light for the film to be exposed with. I guess it's like the fluorescent effect you get when you put black lights near white cloth.

[Lunatic !!h/HxpkvWDAR No.4005159]

>>4005147
>>implying ionizing radiation can't do the job of a low energy photon
http://www.noah.org/science/x-ray/polaroid/

[Anonymous No.4005170]

>>4004653
i so want to try this

is it perhaps dangerous or can you just get sunburn?