From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 17/11/2025 4:13 am, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >> Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>> On 16/11/2025 10:40 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >   
   > ....   
   >>> 'Chain reaction' can be seen as a couple of compressed mechanical springs   
   each hold by a thin fragile wire.   
   >>> Hit one and the spring releases and if other similar ones are around you   
   get a chain-reaction until all those similar things   
   >>> have expanded.   
   >>> Fusion however is trying to press the strings back and keep them locked ,,   
   >>> You will, by definition, never get more power out (by releasing them   
   again) than you put in there compressing them.   
   >>> So, it is 'merrica all over again, startups try it again and again with no   
   usable result.   
   >>> Fusion.. Fusor, was done long ago, magnitudes below break even.   
   >>   
   >> Jan Panteltje hasn't notice that we've got a fusion reactor hanging in   
   >> the sky - we call it the sun - which gets loads of energy out of fusing   
   >> protons together to make helium. As you look at successively heavier   
   >> atomic nuclei up to about iron they get heavier each time you add in a   
   >> proton or neutron, but not quite as much heavier as you'd expect from   
   >> the weight of an isolated proton or neutron. It's called the mass defect   
   >> and was known about even before Einstein published his mass to energy   
   >> equation.   
   >   
   > So many concepts and mis-understanding goes round   
      
   And Jan Panteltje sees it as his duty to propagate the most absurd of them.   
      
      
      
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