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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: New fusion power system test creates 300,000 degrees C plasma
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:03:51 +0000
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Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

> On 11/29/24 21:04, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> > Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> >> It would be lovely to have 50kWTh or so of PU238 in the basement,
> >> if it could be made cheaply enough. Power for a lifetime for the
> >> whole house and then some.
> > 
> > ...but the lifetime might not be very long if any got out.
> > 
> > 
> 
> If, if. Such arguments can be used to prove anything.
> 
> I've got a diesel-powered car in the basement garage. Fully tanked,
> it contains 60kg of fuel, good for 2.4GJ or so. Imagine the havoc
> that could cause, if it got loose. For reference, a stick of dynamite
> is about 1MJ.

I've seen what happened when builders accidentally set fire to a tank of
diesel far bigger than that.  It burned slowly and steadily until it set
fire to the roof of the house - then the house burned down.  Nobody was
injured or killed, the mess was easily cleaned up and a new house built
on the site.

It wasn't like the sudden release of energy you would get in a fuel-air
explosion (quite difficult to initiate with diesel without specialist
knowledge) and there wasn't a lot of residual toxic contamination.


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