Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
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#2This seems.. too good to be true?
I don't have the Physics chops to untangle the likelihood of this tech and the credibility of the process and its authors, so I'm hoping the HN crowd will be able to pad out the story behind this.
Certainly, from my layperson's perspective, their website isn't exactly encouraging... https://www.hb11.energy/
- ed re: last line - "books and covers, and all that"
Re: Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
#3This seems.. too good to be true? I don't have the Physics chops to untangle the likelihood of this tech and the credibility of the process and its authors, so I'm hoping the HN crowd will be able to pad out the story behind this. Certainly, from my layperson's perspective, their website isn't exactly encouraging... https://www.hb11.energy/ - ed re: last line - "books and covers, and all that"
Not a physicist, but I thought it seemed fishy as well. I’m curious how they plan to sustain a reaction, since their setup didn’t seem to be useful for more than a single shot…
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#4Now that’s science
Re: Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
#5As a bonus it produces helium, which we've been running low on right? Break out the party balloons!
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#6> First milestone is demonstrating the reactions, which should be easy.
They haven’t even demonstrated the reaction? What’s all the talk about results being “billions” of times better than expected?
Re: Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
#7This seems.. too good to be true? I don't have the Physics chops to untangle the likelihood of this tech and the credibility of the process and its authors, so I'm hoping the HN crowd will be able to pad out the story behind this. Certainly, from my layperson's perspective, their website isn't exactly encouraging... https://www.hb11.energy/ - ed re: last line - "books and covers, and all that"
The Hydrogen Boron reaction is real and well-known to be a way to do fusion without lots of stray neutrons. The sticking point has always been that it's more difficult to cause that reaction than deuterium/tritium or deuterium/deuterium.
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#8“ This cascading avalanche of reactions is an essential step toward the ultimate goal: reaping far more energy from the reaction than you put in. The extraordinary early results lead HB11 to believe the company "stands a high chance of reaching the goal of net energy gain well ahead of other groups."
Its a great read, but it sounds like its still a net energy loss.. one more brick on the road though.
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#9It would be awesome to know what experiments they've done, or if this is all simulation
Re: Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
#10This seems.. too good to be true? I don't have the Physics chops to untangle the likelihood of this tech and the credibility of the process and its authors, so I'm hoping the HN crowd will be able to pad out the story behind this. Certainly, from my layperson's perspective, their website isn't exactly encouraging... https://www.hb11.energy/ - ed re: last line - "books and covers, and all that"
Not a physicist, but I thought it seemed fishy as well. I’m curious how they plan to sustain a reaction, since their setup didn’t seem to be useful for more than a single shot…
This reads like a type of ICF which normally has a stream of pellets being fed in after the initial pellet has reached a hot enough temperature to sustain the fusion reaction.