edited 12th Feb '14 7:44:56 PM by MobileLeprechaun
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019It worked for me.
We were just talkng about that today in EE.
It's not happening. Forty years ago, the technology was twenty years away. And now it's still twenty years away. I think we've had the technology to do this for a little while, but the issue is that it's just not practical, given how much energy it takes just to set it off.
Also, thinking back, I am not sure the second Spiderman movie knew what tritium actually was. They seemed to think it was some sort of rare metal.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistA little of column A, a little of column B. We can do it, it's just crazy expensive and ultimately not worth it at the moment, considering the output. What we need to do to get it to work is recreate the temperatures on the sun for an instant (i.e.: six million degree temperatures, thereabouts). It can be done, but it's gonna require a shitload of juice.
Hell, that's even sort of the case with fission reactors. They're so uncommon just because of how incredibly complex they are, meaning they're expensive to build and expensive to maintain, and expensive to fill with employees. With coal, you can just get some Joe Schmoe to operate heavy machinery. With nuclear, you need to get an engineer with four to six years of college under his belt who will need to be paid at least twice as much.
Also, there's the issue with waste and meltdowns that make people uncomfortable.
edited 12th Feb '14 7:57:16 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist

I met a therapy chicken today.