Fusion is sort of impossible...

  • EqualsThree
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    Without using any walls to isolate the tremendous amount of pressure and heat needed to contain both of these attributes...anyone up for building a fusion power plant without using walls?
  • plead-for-destruction
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @EqualsThree (View Post)
    thats a disaster waiting to happen o.o
  • code1949
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @plead-for-destruction (View Post)
    I think a lot of 0C PUMP in conjunction with temperature-controlled ARAY and RPEL fields in a reactor limited to HYGN fusion may be feasible. CO2 is definitely out of the question though due to the SING byproduct.

    It is mainly a matter of balancing reactant pressure and temperature with wall temperature and pressure.
  • EqualsThree
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    How do you prevent the SING from destroying the PUMP, ARAY and RPEL then?
  • code1949
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @EqualsThree (View Post)
    By limiting the temperature or pressure to NBLE fusion at most, though I'd personally limit it to HYGN fusion for saafety reasons.
  • EqualsThree
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    I think we can't go beyond HYGN, when the hydrogen turns into CO2 it can even go through 2 pixel thick walls of DMND.
  • code1949
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @EqualsThree (View Post)
    Thus either temperature must be kept below 5000 degrees or pressure kept below 100 in order to prevent NBLE fusion from occurring.
  • Minishooz
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    As FRAY changes the air velocity you could make a field of that at a low temperature to prevent damage by pressure. You could also use PUMP as @code1949 said. Also keep the temperature below a point, to prevent SING occuring. Really a step is missing in the fusion. It should be HYGN->NBLE->CO2->LAVA(IRON)->SING. But the molten iron step is missing in tpt. I think I made a small something like this, but it used walls.
  • R3APER
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    With ambient heat this is possible with destructible materials. Just have a main system circulating liquid nitrogen, that type of thing. I'm not too good with reactors but it seems very likely, that this will be accomplished soon.
  • BoredInSchool
    13th Apr 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    I am in the process of making a fusion reactor w/o walls, but this is the first reactor of any kind that I've tried to build so it is pretty slow going.