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Dadifer@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

World’s 1st nuclear fusion-powered electric propulsion drive unveiled - Interesting Engineering

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World’s 1st nuclear fusion-powered electric propulsion drive unveiled - Interesting Engineering

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Dadifer@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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RocketStar Inc. has showcased its advanced nuclear-based propulsion technology called the FireStar Drive.
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    The headline’s a bit misleading. The drive is a plasma thruster, and the company found that by adding Boronated water to the exhaust the plasma would fuse with some of the boron creating a kind of afterburner effect, not a sustained fusion reaction. It’s kind of interesting as a way to boost the performance of the plasma thruster, but not “OMG it’s a Fusion Drive!!!” interesting.

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      Imagine all this work/research on fusion and some dudes like oh yeah my space engine does that

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        Fusion is easy. Getting net energy out is hard.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

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    But do they stack in my inventory?

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    The first step in designing a fusion reactor is picking where to hide the power source

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    What is this cube and how does it relate to the drive?

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      When you plug two of them into each other it goes twice as fast.

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    Minecraft command block?

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