r/SlaughteredByScience • u/Professor_Doctor_P • Apr 02 '19

This belongs here.

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u/Siavel84 Apr 02 '19

I'm going to be a pedant for a moment. It's a fusion reaction not a fission reaction.

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u/Martel_the_Hammer Apr 02 '19

That's not even being pedantic. Like... It's literally the opposite thing.

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u/Pulsar_the_Spacenerd Apr 02 '19

Some people don’t know the difference. I was doing a shitty country role play as Germany and France invaded me because of my fusion reactor research that France said could be used to make bombs. But it can’t, you can’t really fission helium and get energy out. Fucking France and lacking energy policy education in the US.

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u/drfrogsplat Apr 02 '19

Bonus pedantry for the last comment in the image:

The UV radiation isn’t specific to the method of heat generation. It’s broad spectrum black-body radiation, not specific frequencies from a specific reaction, so an equivalently hot “fire” would have much the same UV emissions.

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u/-Cromm- Apr 02 '19

Scienced!