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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: New fusion power system test creates 300,000 degrees C plasma
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 14:13:55 +1100
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On 1/12/2024 12:45 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Sun, 1 Dec 2024 00:12:31 +1100) it happened Bill Sloman
> <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vif30a$1o4ji$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> On 30/11/2024 10:11 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>> On a sunny day (Sat, 30 Nov 2024 21:02:25 +1100) it happened Bill Sloman
>>> <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vienrs$1l2a8$1@dont-email.me>:
>>>
>>>> On 30/11/2024 5:37 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>>> On a sunny day (Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:12:42 +1100) it happened Bill Sloman
>>>>> <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vidvrl$1d62d$1@dont-email.me>:
>>>>>> On 30/11/2024 2:27 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>>>>> On a sunny day (Sat, 30 Nov 2024 01:15:15 +1100) it happened Bill Slowman
>>>>>>> <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vici9s$13umg$1@dont-email.me>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 30/11/2024 12:00 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:

<snip>

>>> Well, we have global warming in case humans fail.
>>
>> It's anthropogenic global warming. If we stop digging up fossil carbon
>> and burning it, that extra warmth will go away eventually - but it is
>> likely to take a few centuries.
>>
>>> Or we can dig deep enough into the ground for some heat.
>>> But the question remains if you CAN make break even - get positive energy out
>>>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
>>> endless babble about Albert E...
>>>
>>> But, my solar panels work great!
>>
>> But they rely on that big fusion reactor hanging there in the middle of
>> the solar system. It's been there for about 4.5 billion years. Nobody
>> realised that it was nuclear fusion reactor until quite recently, and
>> the message still doesn't seem to have got through to you.
> 
> Oh well, and the sun will burn up eventually or so I'v read.
> Not so much is known about the inner nuclear workings of the sun.

Quite a lot is known, if not by you.

> Is the fusion part caused by enormous pressures from the rest of the sun?

It's temperature rather than  pressure that makes the difference.

> It does not have to be break even or positive at all.

Of course it has to. Gravitational compression created the pressure and 
the heat that eventually started the nuclear reaction. It takes about 
100,000 years for a photon from the reacting core of the sum to make it 
out to emerge as sunlight.

> I will not even mention Le Sage (oops) and possible other theories
> dark matter, what not.

That's a relief. You mostly ventilate your idiocies non-stop.
> 
> Would be nice if we could look ahead a few thousand years to see the theories then.

Not really. We wouldn't understand them.

> If humanity still exists, Dinos ?

Most species last about 10 million years. We might completely wreck the 
earth and kill ourselves off in the process, but we've survived several 
ice-age to interglacial transitions.

> We are just like ants, a few neurons wanting - looking for - a theory of everything.

Just a bit bigger than ants, with rather more technology.

> And yet, everything is connected...

Another one of your mindless assertions.

> There is nothing you can know that is not known:
>   https://www.thebeatles.com/all-you-need-love-0

There is plenty you can "know" that isn't known to other people.

You produce more nonsense than most, and most of what you think you know 
strikes other people as largely unoriginal nonsense.

"It does not have to be break even or positive at all."

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney