- sexual_tomato ( @sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 26•6 days ago
There are other more efficient working fluids for power transfer but water is pretty hard to beat due to it not being toxic or an environmental hazard.
- LostXOR ( @LostXOR@fedia.io ) 18•6 days ago
What a novel and interesting idea! If only it wasn’t all a huge scam to take money from investors!
- CarbonIceDragon ( @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ) 10•6 days ago
I’ll believe it when they actually generate net electricity output. I don’t necessarily think they’re a scam per se, but given the relative resources available and difficulty even for international projects to get fusion power working, I don’t suspect their efforts will be successful. Would love to be proven wrong of course, or if not for their work to at least contribute useful progress to the effort.
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 2•6 days ago
I mean they’re using an effectively off the shelf reactor which if outputted as promised would fatally irradiate anyone in the area, so i’m not sure the’re really set up to do much beyond separation of fools and money.
- Rooskie91 ( @Rooskie91@discuss.online ) 8•6 days ago
ITER isn’t figuring it out, I doubt this tiny private corporation is going to contribute anything meaningful.
- Fontasia ( @Fontasia@feddit.nl ) 6•5 days ago
Remember that time when a physicist proposed a Thorium Potassium reactor which woudl run at a lower temperature and the feature that the reaction would destroy itself before ever going critical and the world was like “interesting” and then he said “and it even prevents weaponised uranium” and then the world went “no thank you”
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 3•6 days ago
do they not produce heat?
- hydroptic ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) 5•5 days ago
Pretty much everything that’s not totally inert produces heat, but the point (they claim!) is that these newfangled doodads don’t generate power using that heat.
So far we’ve mainly been generating power with more and more ingenious ways of heating up water.
- BirdyBoogleBop ( @BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•5 days ago
So it’s a turbine then?