Reply to: I've just solved the energy crisis (for the UK)

[Stan.goodvibes]

And coming back to reality, that is a serious feat of engineering. I want one

Give it another few years and it'll be the size of a AA battery. You'll probably have one powering your laptop (running Windows 10, it will probably still run out of power after about 3 hours).

[Stan.goodvibes]

If I had 10 of 'em, Mrs. Dalek would still complain that the house was too cold.

only til it went critical, then I'm sure she'd love that 2 million degrees, however briefly...

[TimberWolf]

And we can use the substance you spout to fertilise cornfields

A quick calculation suggests that that reactor (25 MW) would take an hour to produce a tonne of fertiliser (assuming 80 GJ / tonne figure I've seen for nitrogen fertiliser).

25 MW is about the energy content released by burning a litre of petrol per second. You'd need 10s of thousands of these things to wean us off fossil fuels entirely (electrical energy not being our dominant energy use).

Cool (if a tad small to save us) though.

[Pogle]

My inner geek says that I really want one

Mine too, and my outer Geek really wants to glow in the dark

[DiscoStu]

My inner geek says that I really want one

Mine too

[Bob Dalek]

If I had 10 of 'em, Mrs. Dalek would still complain that the house was too cold.

[TheFaQQer]

My inner geek says that I really want one

[BrilloPad]

I wonder what sort of bulk discount you would get on 2000?

[DimPrawn]

for 10,000 homes over 10 years that works out at $250 per home per year

When it is shipped to the UK, taking into account import duty, VAT, shipping, fuel equivalent duty, Carbon tax, Nuclear energy licence fees levy, currency conversion, that becomes £14,000 per home per year.

[zara_backdog]

I'd play the "hedgehog under my shed is a protected species" card.

and I've got "bats in my shed which are a protected species" card - honest!

[Bob Dalek]

NIMBY!!!

I'd play the "hedgehog under my shed is a protected species" card.

[Spacecadet]

I wonder whose back garden it'd sit in?

NIMBY!!!

[Bob Dalek]

I wonder whose back garden it'd sit in?

[Spacecadet]

Hyperion Power Module will retail for $25 million

for 10,000 homes over 10 years that works out at $250 per home per year

[AtW]

Alternatively we could just harness all the hot air spouted by AtW.

And we can use the substance you spout to fertilise cornfields