{"id":485,"date":"2005-08-23T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=485"},"modified":"2005-08-22T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T20:01:00","slug":"desktop-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/08\/23\/desktop-fusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, a reactor in every pot.<br \/>\nWell, maybe not quite, but at least they&#8217;re getting closer, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.uns.purdue.edu\/html4ever\/2005\/050712.Xu.fusion.html\">this article at Purdue University News on-line<\/a>.  Researchers at Purdue University have recently established supporting evidence that earlier findings by other scientists, who designed an inexpensive &#8220;tabletop&#8221; device that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion reactions, are, in fact valid.  They&#8217;ve been working on this for over two years and have finally reproduced good results with their small, deuterium-powered reactor.<br \/>\nAccording to the article, &#8220;development of a low-cost thermonuclear fusion generator would offer the potential for a new, relatively safe and low-polluting energy source. &#8230; A cubic kilometer of seawater would contain enough heavy hydrogen to provide a thousand years&#8217; worth of power for the United States.  Such a technology also could result in a new class of low-cost, compact detectors for security applications that use neutrons to probe the contents of suitcases; devices for research that use neutrons to analyze the molecular structures of materials; machines that cheaply manufacture new synthetic materials and efficiently produce tritium, which is used for numerous applications ranging from medical imaging to watch dials; and a new technique to study various phenomena in cosmology, including the workings of neutron stars and black holes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow.  I guess all those science-fiction writers were closer to reality than we ever thought, eh?  I wonder how long it will be before we have transporters or &#8220;stepping disks&#8221; ala Larry Niven?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, a reactor in every pot. Well, maybe not quite, but at least they&#8217;re getting closer, according to this article at Purdue University News on-line. Researchers at Purdue University have recently established supporting evidence that earlier findings by other scientists, who designed an inexpensive &#8220;tabletop&#8221; device that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion reactions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28,30],"tags":[299,653,652,651,654],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-larry-niven","tag-low-polluting-energy-source","tag-medical-imaging","tag-purdue-university","tag-security-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}