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Dadifer@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

World’s 1st nuclear fusion-powered electric propulsion drive unveiled - Interesting Engineering

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World’s 1st nuclear fusion-powered electric propulsion drive unveiled - Interesting Engineering

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Dadifer@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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RocketStar Inc. has showcased its advanced nuclear-based propulsion technology called the FireStar Drive.
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    The headline’s a bit misleading. The drive is a plasma thruster, and the company found that by adding Boronated water to the exhaust the plasma would fuse with some of the boron creating a kind of afterburner effect, not a sustained fusion reaction. It’s kind of interesting as a way to boost the performance of the plasma thruster, but not “OMG it’s a Fusion Drive!!!” interesting.

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      Imagine all this work/research on fusion and some dudes like oh yeah my space engine does that

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        Fusion is easy. Getting net energy out is hard.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

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    But do they stack in my inventory?

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      Only the small grid version, which we haven’t unlocked yet

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    The first step in designing a fusion reactor is picking where to hide the power source

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    Not exactly inspiring any confidence trying to pass that AI-generated monstrosity as a photo of the device.

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    This is actual snake oil

    • NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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      What the removed kind of snakes do you have living around you?

      • hemmes@lemmy.world
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        Nuclear snakes

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      O.o

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    What is this cube and how does it relate to the drive?

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      When you plug two of them into each other it goes twice as fast.

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      That’s what it looks like when it’s about 50% complete. At that point you need like 2000 steel plates and it’s a pretty slow grind.

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    Minecraft command block?

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    I beg to differ. I present - the Ford Nucleon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

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      This was a concept. The linked article claims demonstration. Big difference.

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        It was a joke. WTF

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