What weapons could the military make with fusion power?
https://www.newsweek.com/american-military-fusion-reactor-space-avalanche-energy-orbitron-1721359?amp=1
What weapons could the military make with fusion power?
What weapons could the military make with fusion power?
https://www.newsweek.com/american-military-fusion-reactor-space-avalanche-energy-orbitron-1721359?amp=1
>fusion reactor
lmao yeah sure in just 5 years
5 years from now I see the U.S. Military withdrawing completely from Europe and Asia as ability to project force disintegrates and domestic police forces have to be augmented by soldiers. The Chinese will do it, though.
Shitpost? Bait? Or does someone actually think this?
Hard to tell, sad times indeed.
a reactor doesn't imply net power generation, just the conditions for the reaction to proceed
Why the frick would we spend billions of dollars sending a fusion reactor to space when they can't even do jack shit on the surface of Earth?
Why can't we build like a 100 micro breeder fission reactors on Earth instead? Why are we wasting so much money on fusion shit when fission actually works and is underutilized?
Sometimes I feel like our leaders deliberately frick us over.
>Sometimes I feel like our leaders deliberately frick us over.
Just sometimes?
Fusion is 100% safe and has literally no drawbacks if it actually worked.
fusion shits out neutrons that literally turn the containment vessel radioactive as well as causing the materials to become brittle and break down over time.
You still have to deal with constant maintenance and replacement of the containment vessel as well as dealing with the radioactive waste byproducts.
It can't to boom though. Which should remove from the evasion morons like Germans, trying to stifle it.
>evasion
equation*
Pebble bed reactors have been a thing since the 1990s. Why the frick we are still searching for "safe" nuclear/fusion is fricking beyond me.
God I hate our species so much.
Because fusion sounds infinitely coller than lameass pebble bed.
Don't pebbles have a problem with producing dust?
Aneutronic fusion exists. There's fusion reactions beyond Deuterium/Tritium.
>Fusion is 100% safe and has literally no drawbacks if it actually worked.
Okay Doc Ock.
Important to note that the only feasible fusion reactor right now is a small helium 3 reactor. They are in development for exactly this purpose, small power. They can't be used as power plants because of the rarity of 3He.
Aren't those little fusion reactors based on impact proven to work already? The ones where they just send a small ball to hit some other small shit?
They work, but are more a proof of concept than cost effective. For specialty applications they may be worth the cost, but they are nowhere near competitive with anything else. Yet.
Fake and gay.
Most successful are tritium test reactors because they require 10 less temperature and pressure than He3 for ignition. He3 is just space trannies boondoggle.
>haha, time for moon mining
Anything that consumes a lot of power like lasers or rail guns would benefit from fusion.
Sure, in the same way that a hand grenade is (very briefly) an internal combustion engine.
>ITT people forget that a H-bomb is a fusion reactor
Big if true.
>What weapons could the military make with fusion power?
A new version of Project Excalibur. Only this time it wouldn't be single use.
Go look it up. Project Excalibur was perhaps the most badass .mil project the US ever had.
A giant nuke in space whos detonation would have powered fricking X-RAY LASERS which would have rendered soviet ICBMs and warheads expensive pieces of space debris.
Old man Teller was one fricking mad genius. I miss that dude and his ideas like you wouldnt believe.
Don't forget the contemporary artwork which makes it even better