Shop OBEX P1 Docs P2 Docs Learn Events
Game Changer? — Parallax Forums

Game Changer?

ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
edited 2012-01-29 07:16 in General Discussion
I don't what you guys feel about this, but to me this would be like somebody casually announcing they had successfully demonstrated an anti-gravity device or a cure for going bald. I thought it was fake until I found the original link on the NASA website.


http://technologygateway.nasa.gov/media/CC/lenr/lenr.html

Comments

  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2012-01-29 06:30
    Wow! Wonder how long before that technology becomes available to businesses and consumers...
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2012-01-29 07:16
    There are so many better designs for nuclear power plants than the current water reactors. Unfortunately fossil fuels are always cheaper than them because they are a mature technology. So the money goes elsewhere, but then we never mature new sources of energy.

    This design sounds a bit like the energy amplifier concept I heard about years ago. Basically you start with a certain amount of energy to create a source of neutrons. You use these neutrons to make artificially radioactive materials, but not a critical mass of this material. When this material undergoes fission it releases of bonding energy which is greater than the energy you put in.

    Quantum nucleonics are similar, but the energy out is less than you put in. Basically they are a storage medium for nuclear power.
Sign In or Register to comment.