Innerworld@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoChina tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbinewww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1239
arrow-up1239external-linkChina tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbinewww.livescience.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square31linkfedilink
minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoHelium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoI need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.
minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoIt’s not a joke if you hit boron with a neutron it releases the energy in the form of an alpha particle which is just a helium atom. So take some boron-10 put it in a neutron flux and you get helium. This is being done in nearly every nuclear power plant in the world every second
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI did not know that
Helium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron
I need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.
It’s not a joke if you hit boron with a neutron it releases the energy in the form of an alpha particle which is just a helium atom.
So take some boron-10 put it in a neutron flux and you get helium. This is being done in nearly every nuclear power plant in the world every second
I did not know that