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If I cook it on the reactor, is it fusion cuisine?
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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6411221" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>It is more that the power output of such devices* is not large enough to be used in something like a domestic vehicle. The Mars rover Curiosity has one that puts out about 125 Watts of power - enough for a couple of light bulbs, not enough to get you to work at 60 mph.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The descriptions are, as my father would have said, horsehockey. They are gobbledigook put together to sound convincing, but do not match up with anything in reality. You don't need a laser to melt the thorium. Thorium and its oxides melt at Very high temperatures (like, thousands of degrees Fahrenheit). You aren't going to melt that in a car engine. You aren't going to use a fission reactor in a car - melting or not, that produces hard radiation that takes shielding on the order of yards of concrete. Heck, the descriptions also say that there is no nuclear reaction going on!</p><p></p><p></p><p>*It isn't technically a battery. The radioactive decay produces heat - the heat is used to create electricity through thermocouples. They are just sometimes called "nuclear batteries".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6411221, member: 177"] It is more that the power output of such devices* is not large enough to be used in something like a domestic vehicle. The Mars rover Curiosity has one that puts out about 125 Watts of power - enough for a couple of light bulbs, not enough to get you to work at 60 mph. The descriptions are, as my father would have said, horsehockey. They are gobbledigook put together to sound convincing, but do not match up with anything in reality. You don't need a laser to melt the thorium. Thorium and its oxides melt at Very high temperatures (like, thousands of degrees Fahrenheit). You aren't going to melt that in a car engine. You aren't going to use a fission reactor in a car - melting or not, that produces hard radiation that takes shielding on the order of yards of concrete. Heck, the descriptions also say that there is no nuclear reaction going on! *It isn't technically a battery. The radioactive decay produces heat - the heat is used to create electricity through thermocouples. They are just sometimes called "nuclear batteries". [/QUOTE]
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