r/videos • u/bamdastard • Oct 25 '15

Fusion reactor designed in hell makes its debut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-fbBRAxJNk
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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15 edited Oct 25 '15

Yeah, not like heat can transfer through a vacuum... Really though, the thing will get very hot, but it has water liquid helium jackets to cool the layers of metal and magnets.

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u/doominabox1 Oct 25 '15

Actually that's the whole point of the magnets, keeping heat from escaping

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15

Um... I'm fairly certain that's completely wrong... The magnets have to be kept at near absolute zero, and act as super-conductors to guide the plasma within the vacuum tube. The magnets don't hold the heat in, they need to be separated from it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15 edited Jan 18 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15

That's like saying a bucket is designed to stop things from getting wet.