New form of energy?

[JDUB]

Interesting ... and dangerous. Thoughts?

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2006/physics-astron/hottest-z-output.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11732814/

[Versus3k]

They must have used one big thermometer to measure those temperatures!

And I like the bit where they say "They don't know how they did it.";

[Ghost-MOH-]

Holy ****!

[JDUB]

They must have used one big thermometer to measure those temperatures!


I never thought about that ... realistically, how would they measure temperatures that are so high? Very interesting. I'm still waiting for the TBF2 members with physics and chem degrees to post in here. :)

P.S. That picture would make a good wallpaper.

[<}US{>BlackHawkPilot73]

Holy ****!

Like him Holy :censored:

[Metal_Storm]

Nice, I want some.

[Magical Poop]

i can see it now, a new weapon of mass destruction...

[sackynut]

im feling kinda chilly, lets turn on the heater....

[Alm()nd J()y]

Thats freaking amazing!! Is it radioactive?

[filthyscumbag]

This looks like Fusion Energy. Check out General Atomics they do simulair stuff

[KingJungle]

Amazing facility at Sandia...still doing lots of Nuke tests etc underground usually. I liked the bit about "The results, recorded by spectrometers and confirmed by computer models" i.e. they couldnt find a thermometer that actually worked... :D although I aint an American, I was lucky enough to work out there for 6 months last year...they just made me wear a red badge...something about knowing who to shoot first...LOL

[Blak_Phoenix]

Wow, that is amasing!! 2 billion kelvin! damn... i want, lol. and thats so interesting how it actually puts out more energy than they put into it, very interesting... I shall keep an eye out for more about this.

[Xicer]

Thats pretty hot...

[Whistle]

2 billion kelvins... say goodbye to microwaves. 3 mintues to cook a thing of easy mac no more! a milisecond will now cook enough hot dogs to feed all of new york.

[Xicer]

Looks like ill be burning my toast more often...

[alkajazz]

i can see it now, a new weapon of mass destruction...
yea.... lets drop giant zmachines on other countries and fire em up

[i made you]

Creating more energy than you put in sounds nuclear to me. I'm guessing it's some kind of fusion machine, especially with their mention of magnetic fields and compression. At least energy efficiency is being increased, even if it is by accident.

[wootoow]

I can see benefits of this new development but unfortunately it will be used for bad things too. It makes me a little nervous of this new discovery. I realize we need to find an alternate fuel source but i wonder if we're ready for this.

[i made you]

There's nothing wrong with it; it's too expensive to get into the wrong hands. Building a fusion bomb is much easier than trying to harness its energy.

[Foulfoot]

A spot of nitpicking: There is no such thing as "new" energy, there is energy. What it expresses as is another matter...
However, an output of more energy than the input isn't possible (and that's not what the Sandia article says they got, either), that way you could build powerhouses with all the energy needed to start the reaction, seal them off except for an outlet, and have them deliver energy for the rest of eternity.

The MSN article copy/pastes a good deal of the Sandia article, but I didn't see any acknowledgements. Bad form.

Am headed to check up on the energy-ranges for gamma and X-ray, I seem to remember a different distinction. (Measuring light's "temperature" is one way of expressing the energy per photon)

:cool:

[Pistolsex]

goodbye cold weather.

[ahhsai]

thats pretty smart..... using ions and compressing them so much the their kinectic energy increases and increase the tempereture, larger pressure = higher kinectic energy = heat, and the only way to compress ions enough is to turn them into plasma and control it with magnetic fields, freakin geniuses these guys are

[Foulfoot]

[...] freakin geniuses these guys are

The real spot of "genius" (serendipidity, possibly?) is using using steel for the ion generating threads: Due to weight of the atom, you'd expect a higher kinetic yield from titanium, but using a carbon-containing alloy, they might just have made the iron spin into the same range of energy/mass as it's center-of-gravity kinetic energy lies in. Meeting with slower ions, said spin could...

meh. This site isn't on nanomech, is it?

:cool:

[Whistle]

no it isnt still interesting stuff though

[ahhsai]

dude, i come here to see people flame each other and laugh at people, not to get confused, thats my teacher's job XD now i gotta knock it out of my head before it sinks in.....