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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Could particle accelerators be used in controlled nuclear fusion?

The really big problem in controlled nuclear fusion is that we simply aren't very comfortable working at temperatures of several hundred millions of degrees Kelvin. Now, in stars, the temperatures can be somewhat lower, because of the density of matter at their centers. But, there doesn't appear to be any practical way of achieving a similar effect here on earth. But, we do have a very well developed technology for increasing the energy of particles, already. Cyclotrons, or particle accelerators. Could the energy of matter be increased systematically using a combination of kinetic energy from a particle accelerator, and heat energy from masses of lasers? Is this an approach to controlled nuclear fusion worth considering?

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