homemade nuclear reactor in Brooklyn

[ashtweth]

Mark Suppes, an amateur scientist from Bedford-Stuyvesant, built a a homemade nuclear reactor..

Read more: Gucci web designer Mark Suppes builds homemade nuclear reactor in Brooklyn warehouse

The goal is to build a device that could produce more energy than it takes to power it - a conundrum that has hampered scientists for some 50 years.
Sounds like he needs to build the Doc's/ Lid's SEC

And this-""I was inspired because I believed I was looking at a technology that could actually work to solve our energy problems," Suppes, 32, told the BBC."
so much money thrown away on a toxic source such as nuclear reactors, we should contact him

Ash

[Savvypro]

Mark Suppes, an amateur scientist from Bedford-Stuyvesant, built a a homemade nuclear reactor..

Read more: Gucci web designer Mark Suppes builds homemade nuclear reactor in Brooklyn warehouse

The goal is to build a device that could produce more energy than it takes to power it - a conundrum that has hampered scientists for some 50 years.
Sounds like he needs to build the Doc's/ Lid's SEC

And this-""I was inspired because I believed I was looking at a technology that could actually work to solve our energy problems," Suppes, 32, told the BBC."
so much money thrown away on a toxic source such as nuclear reactors, we should contact him

Ash

He's building a fusor - more info at: fusor.net (fusor)

I've quoted the following from the site, as it's an interesting point to think about.

As evening falls, Suppes wonders aloud if cheap fusion energy is even a good idea. "Would we just use up the planet quicker?" he asks, then shrugs and moves on. It's a good question. In every age access to easier energy has gone along with environmental destruction. From Native Americans fire clearing forests and the extinction of Australian megafauna to the Industrial Revolution fouling up everything else, we've always used energy for beating the hell out of the planet. Today tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil have poured into the Gulf of Mexico. Might as well try for the devil we don't know.

For me the solution is simple (the simple version is as follows - don’t have time to explain in full as the football is about to start).

There needs to be an attitude change - to one of efficiency, being able to do more with less. Rewarding efficiency and punishing waste. How efficient can we get - so be the basis for how things are done.

[shawn]

With that $40 grand he could have helped with the dense plasma focus fusion project of Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Society: Developing an environmentally safe, clean, low cost, unlimited energy source for everyone.
But no.............

[jibbguy]

Savvy you bring up some good points for thought.

This is why "free energy" technologies will not help boost this mad consumerism, insanely unsupportable system we are being destroyed by now:

First, as we make our own power, we will learn the limitations. Cost is the main one. Building or buying a system and installing it that produces "8kW" is a lot easier and cheaper than one that is "20kW" as everything must be so much heavier and stronger to take the higher currents.

If you talk to people who have went off grid or even with grid tie systems... The one universal thing noted is that these people ALL appreciate conserving power to a much greater extent now... They will use at least 20 % LESS energy than before, even though they are paying less for their energy now. I've noticed for years, when people "live off of DC" on boats or campers, they learn to conserve and make much more efficient use of what they have... because they have to. But even when they go home and have "unlimited" electricity (the limitation being price); they still use less energy than most homeowners; and are often proud of what they have saved... because that habit of ignoring energy, just taking it for granted as some "magical" or "inevitable" thing... has been broken, and they do what makes sense now.

Out-of-control consumerism is certainly a bad thing, because it is not sustainable. But consumerism on a saner scale does a very important "job" in Society: Providing millions of jobs. What we need do, is make the things we consume sustainable and non-polluting, and when the energy used to manufacture these things is gotten CLEANLY... this alone will make tremendous difference.

Here's an example.. None of us here may give a flying hoot what is this summer's new rage in "Women's Shoes".. But it matters to many good gals i know, who are interested in it; it is part of their lifestyle and i never judge them on it.

If those shoes that will be sitting in the closet for years before being hustled out the Salvation Army box were not manufactured in a way that pollutes, if they don't cause forests to be destroyed, do not require more petroleum to be mined in dangerous and polluting circumstances... then who cares. We can afford it... And with cheap energy creating a level playing field, a little village in Africa or Peru, or even South Dakota can sell quality and stylish shoes they make to the world via the Internet. That is the essence of a truly free market. There is a difference between the small local businesses and huge corporations: The villages are not run by sociopaths who only care for themselves.

We LIKE free markets, just not the phony crap they try to sell us as that, which are really more like corporate feudal fiefdoms that are only "free" to those elites who manipulate them. But those guys will eventually be gone too; along with their planet-killing oil and coal

[Savvypro]

The one good thing about the fusor news coverage, is that it should hopefully get people thinking about the waste of money that is the ITER project.

That it can be done for a lot less, using a method that has way more promise than a Tokamak. That will not require the working reactor to be taken offline, dismantled and rebuilt after only 2 years of use (because the walls of the Tokamak reactor will become extremely radioactive in that time period that they need to be replaced).

The funny thing about the ITER project, is that a Aussie team - about a month ago published, a report stating that they had developed a new fuel. One that would take 10 times less energy to fuse than the normal Tokamak fuel of choice.

The funny thing is that it’s the same fuel that was used in the Dr. Robert Bussard's reactor (see the following page for a good intro: http://49chevy.blogs.com/fusor/2006/...google_g.html).


. . . .

I'll add to my "Rewarding efficiency and punishing waste" - what I mean by punishing waste is punishing the creation of things which take so much or destroy so much to achieve so little as jibbguy so rightly stated. But I'm thinking more at the creation level of things.

Where inventors, engineers and scientists don't just stop at creating things that are effective at getting things done - but are efficient, to the point of being brutally efficient. Where wast is shunned and ridiculed instead of praised and rewarded.

Formula 1 is a good example, as everything the teams do to the cars has a knock on effect on how well they perform as well as how much the teams earn.

Poor performing teams earn less than better performing teams, which is why they really push the engineering limits.

[shawn]

Lerner is not using the Tokamak reactor design from what I have read.
He has developed a different design which is far cheaper to build, safer and has a longer life span.
I think it is a good idea which doesn't get the backing it deserves and needs.
And then steorn wastes 22 million and the Tokamak company burns through millions and so on, but the focus fusion project gets only a few hundred thousand which doesn't even buy the necessary equipment, let alone pay any salaries to the techs working on it.
But what else is new....I should be jaded and used to this crap by now.

[EthelAether]

haha, this is the REAL quote: "What if something goes wrong? There's a gas station two blocks away," said Geanine Robinson, 35, who lives in the Marcy Houses across the street from the warehouse."

SOme lady in the PROJECTS is worried that a gas station might blow up, lolz.. No worries about that nuke pile, it might set off the gas pumps for some unknown reason.

So there you have it.. guy is working on NEW energy, and she's worried it might blow up the OLD energy. So classic, I'm gonna die laughing!

She should get off her ass and be productive, stop biatching about a guy who's doing what she could never even think about!

[ashtweth]

With that $40 grand he could have helped with the dense plasma focus fusion project of Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Society: Developing an environmentally safe, clean, low cost, unlimited energy source for everyone.
But no.............

Shawn thats a real good point, we should email that info...what of the DOR that nuclear weapons/reactors produce(Reich and Charles Kelly did experiments to show this), thats another area where he should be in our community to understand

Ash

[Savvypro]

Lerner is not using the Tokamak reactor design from what I have read.
He has developed a different design which is far cheaper to build, safer and has a longer life span.
I think it is a good idea which doesn't get the backing it deserves and needs.
And then steorn wastes 22 million and the Tokamak company burns through millions and so on, but the focus fusion project gets only a few hundred thousand which doesn't even buy the necessary equipment, let alone pay any salaries to the techs working on it.
But what else is new....I should be jaded and used to this crap by now.

I haven't heard of Lerner, but its good to know that there are others working on the pB11 fuel, which Dr. Robert Bussard's used as well.

[Savvypro]

haha, this is the REAL quote: "What if something goes wrong? There's a gas station two blocks away," said Geanine Robinson, 35, who lives in the Marcy Houses across the street from the warehouse."

SOme lady in the PROJECTS is worried that a gas station might blow up, lolz.. No worries about that nuke pile, it might set off the gas pumps for some unknown reason.

So there you have it.. guy is working on NEW energy, and she's worried it might blow up the OLD energy. So classic, I'm gonna die laughing!

She should get off her ass and be productive, stop biatching about a guy who's doing what she could never even think about!

If I remember correctly, some of the fusor based designs like Dr. Robert Bussard's couldn't be made to over load. If you try to force an overload (as in, make the device explode) the fusion reaction just stops.

The physics has a built in safety, which doesn't allow the reaction to be turned into an explosion.