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minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoi mean yeah but how much of that energy can you get out of that uranium, and at what speed?
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoWith about 200kg of the right kind, pretty much all of it quite quickly.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoIsn’t fission actually remarkably inefficient? It’s just that extracting even a single percent of the energy in matter is enough to make it the most ludicrously powerful thing we can do
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 hours agoCan’t be less efficient than boiling water.
i mean yeah but how much of that energy can you get out of that uranium, and at what speed?
With about 200kg of the right kind, pretty much all of it quite quickly.
Isn’t fission actually remarkably inefficient? It’s just that extracting even a single percent of the energy in matter is enough to make it the most ludicrously powerful thing we can do
Can’t be less efficient than boiling water.