Nuclear waste: Is it really waste?

[Geof]

But the US Navy is supporting research into Cold Fusion.

[DirtDobber]

LMAO, and congress still funds research in drosophila genetics, due to number and size of chromosomes. Lets hope stem cell research can grow them a spine, though they DO tend after drosohilidae.

I'm not saying cold fusion isn't possible or has not occurred. It's apparently hard to reproduce in any meaningful scale though. I'm not saying utilization of nuclear waste is not possible, and reutilization is to some degree, though not without another Great Big Facility. Statistics say the impossible is just improbable, like Schrodinger's Cat.

Guvmint would fund shimmy dampers for a duckwaddle to justify their budget for next fiscal year, and swear it's better than shirt pockets.
Where's my flying car and Mr. Fusion?

Skeptical? Yes. Cynic? Yes.
Wrong? I sure hope so.

[DigiTall]

You all may remember that the US built a new embassy in Russia back in the cold war days. It was so full of bugs that we had to tear it down. They found one bug with an atomic battery, about the size of a AA cell. It contained a chunk of radioactive material and a phosphorescent screen. The decaying particles hit the screen creating a glow. The glow energized a photo electric screen producing enough current to run the bug. We estimated that the battery would last for 100 years. How about that, been done years ago. I think that is what you were asking about.

[fizzissist]

Originally Posted by DirtDobber Deleted after I reviewed it, too much like a rant

A rant perhaps, but one that I enjoyed reading!
Being fluent in 4-letter acronyms proved your credibility...

There's a facility at Rochester that's studying laser implosion of deuterium for power and other things. Little plastic coated pellets get zapped by about 24 lasers (I'm pretty sure they're Turbo powered lasers, and the pellets are Gourmet..)

Hitting the pellets with LostsaJoules in the ReallyFast time regime makes some interesting things happen. The nice thing is that if you don't want more power, just shut off the hopper.

note: the preceeding explanation was grossly oversimplified, and was not intended as a sales pitch, since it's a long way from practicality...

[DigiTall]

Hay fizzissist, you're talking 'bout a fusion reaction their aren't you? Haven't they been working on that one for years, extreme surface pressures, real tricky timing, clean bang? Wounder if that gizmo would be good at poppen corn?

[fizzissist]

Originally Posted by DigiTall Hay fizzissist......extreme surface pressures, real tricky timing, clean bang? Wounder if that gizmo would be good at poppen corn?

Temps up to 1,000,000,000 deg K at 10,000,00,000,000,000,000 W/cm2 at probably very helpful in popping corn, or any of its relatives pretty quick.(sorry, haven't figured out how to do the scientific notation thingy yet....but thats really the number of zeros..+/- an order of magnitude)

You can read the official promo for the National Users Laser Facility and Advanced Popcorn Study Center (NULFAPSC) here:
http://www.lle.rochester.edu/pub/doc...sers_guide.pdf

[One of Many]

Figures, I was a few decades late. Or it could have been one of those subliminal memory things I may have read about years ago.......

Thanks for the refresher.

Makes one wonder if/where these types of power sources are still being used?

DC

[DigiTall]

Thanks for link to 30 pages of light reading! So with a chamber that big, temperatures that low and a vacuum that hard that sucker should be able to make a lot of really fluffy popcorn, that would also be crunchy!

So if the super symmetry theory is correct what would the particle be that corresponds to popcorn produced by the Orville RedenBlaster OMEGA laser?

[merl]

Hey Digitall,
were do I find out more about that battery thingy?
Also, does anyone remember what the radio active , glow in the dark stuff was that they used to put in M16 front sights? Started with a T...
I'll say it again, gimme a 12K fuel cell that produces hot water as a by-product and I won't ask for anything else... 'cept maybe a little more shop space and, .....

[howiesatwork]

Originally Posted by merl Hey Digitall, were do I find out more about that battery thingy? Also, does anyone remember what the radio active , glow in the dark stuff was that they used to put in M16 front sights? Started with a T... I'll say it again, gimme a 12K fuel cell that produces hot water as a by-product and I won't ask for anything else... 'cept maybe a little more shop space and, .....

Tritium vials. You can get them still.