Timeline for How could indestructible materials be used in power generation?
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| Apr 6, 2019 at 1:08 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | Disagree on your bomb size. A-bombs aren't that inefficient. | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 21:11 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | C) can be solved easily. You make it out of interlocking, indestructible components. If you do it right, the pressure of the explosion will tighten the seals rather than pulling them apart. A) is also not hard. You just put it under water like you would any other reactor. Put it deep enough that it absorbs all that output and your steam will become your power output. B) ... would require a lot of ingenuity to overcome. | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 17:01 | comment | added | user1717828 | Issues with this answer: A) Indestructible != Impermeable; most of the nuclear products of the reaction will pass through your material (even lead), taking energy with them, B) If you argue they can be contained somehow, the statistical asymmetry of the blast will be enough to absolutely rocket the indestructible vessel one way or another (check out the azimuthal asymmetry of 500 g of C4), C) Ignoring all the above, you can't make the container indestructible without making the nuclear material indestructible, too. | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 15:50 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | @FilipeNicoli you'd have to solve a LOT of other massive engineering problems to do a Dyson sphere though. Not the least of which is just the amount of mass you'd need to move around the solar system to do it. | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 10:36 | comment | added | Eth | If it is indestructible, a Dyson sphere should hold. It would be gravitationally unstable, but the radiation pressure of the Sun should help keeping it centered. | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 5:36 | comment | added | Adrian Hall | @Filipe Nicoli that could be it's own answer. The main issue with a Dyson sphere is that it would collapse on itself. | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 0:15 | comment | added | Filipe Nicoli | I don't want to ellaborate on it, but you could as well use it in a Dyson sphere enclosing a star (or at least orbiting it) | |
| Apr 2, 2019 at 21:14 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Superb answer, wish I'd thought of it. +1 | |
| Apr 2, 2019 at 21:12 | history | answered | Adrian Hall | CC BY-SA 4.0 |