The Impending Energy Crisis

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Originally Posted by Althane

Actually, a new nuclear reactor is being created, called a FAST reactor, that will be able to use practically all the energy that we can suck from uranium, leaving very, very little enriched behind, and that wouldn't be of the quality needed tor dirty bombs. So, that's a good way to do power.

Of course, we could also bend our research towards perfecting fusion, because once we get that down, there's enough energy to power the world, and then some.

I always thought being able to create a mini-star to power a planet was a bad ass idea.

The only problem with it is in order to create a fusion reaction we need to compensate for the loss of gravity that would normally be present in a fusion reaction with more heat.

That means that we would need to produce more heat than what would normally occur in a star, which needless to say is a whole fucking shit ton.

I’m thinking that maybe because the star will be only a fraction of the size of our sun we would only need a fraction of the heat needed to make a star.

Once we get around that though it’s all good from there.