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My room
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Smoke isn't a gas, it's extremely light carbon particulates dispersed in the air Zyklon B is a gaseous form of a chlorine solution
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Then how come you have to light a cigarette?
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Because that begins the combustion process of the hydrocarbon material which means that lighting it permits the acceleration of the atoms of the material to reach a critical point in which the molecules naturally separate and become oxygen, co2, water and, for the remaining carbon, ash which floats off due to heat from the tip creating an updraft It's like a bird riding air currents, the ash
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How do you know so much about cigarettes?
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It's more knowing the combustion reaction as all fires are exactly the same Hydrogen, carbon and oxygen bonded molecules form something like a leaf You add heat Breaks apart molecules, add enough and they continue reaction Flame portion is plasma created by excess energy from molecules not being sunk into something useless like heating That leaf is made into water, o2, and co2 I basically just memorised the equation and now I can explain every terrestrial fire since they all boil down to the same thing
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Well, if you get down to an atomic level, everything is solid. If you take a single carbon atom, you can't just force something through it. It behaves like a solid.
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True, which is why when we split the core we get so much energy - the strong force yields ridiculous amounts of energy that we only access a fraction of
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I wonder what would happen if we split a subatomic particle.
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IIIIIIIIIIIIINNNN—SAAAAAAAAANIIIIITTYYYYYYY
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That, or the whole solar system could explode.
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Find out next time on DragonBall Z?
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Hah I guess.
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I would expect that it would produce much more energy because the total amount of subatomic particles is much greater than that of atoms and their components. Even though they would have less energy total, their numbers might more than make up for that
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I think that it has the potential to wipe out an entire planet. The only problem is making the thing. [spoiler]And, of course, not blowing up the planet.[/spoiler]
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If we could get a perfect energy conversion, we very well could see that. For context, Hiroshima only had an effective conversion rate of less than 2%
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That is the problem with nuclear energy; it is really hard to convert all of the energy into something usable.
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Well we now have low pressure reactors and molten salt reactors The reason why low pressure reactors are more efficient is that the atoms have a much higher cross area reaction rate than when at higher pressures so you get more balloons popping than at high pressures! Not only can we also stick up uranium and plutonium into these, we could also place thorium into it which would eradicate the fears of using the waste to create weapons as thorium decays into nonfissile (cant blow up) materials mostly and selenium With the waste, we can place it inside of a molten salt reactor which recycles the leftovers of reactions and uses up to 98% of it to create even more energy! What do you do with that 2%? Collect a bunch of that and shove it back into the molten salt reactor and generate more energy! The question is why we aren't using these today to completely eliminate our use of fossil fuels and the useless solar and wind energy and the answer to that is greed. Back in the 60's, Nixon lobbied the nuclear program leaders of the US to stifle the creation of these low pressure plants (molten salt is a recent thing) because they were less expensive than high pressure reactors. Then Nixon bowed to the Californian lobbying demands and built all of the reactors in California, screwing the rest of the country
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Dang it Nixon. I really hope that Trump implements these new Molten Salt reactors, we could create enough energy to sell it to other nations.
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We could power the planet for nearly free. Build an array of tesla coils in key locations and then outfit new technology with wireless power receiving capacity and then, in a few years, we could all have practically free wireless energy that would last thousands of years as long as we keep feeding it with nuclear materials of some kind
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Then we would have affordable, attainable, clean energy for everyone. That would almost wipe our poverty.
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Exactly. Which is why our governments propagandise us with fear and false dilemmas - "renewable energy" requires greater government control and taxes onto a populace in order to combat climate change. It's a control tactic when the answer has been staring us in the eyes for 70 years
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And since Trump (hopefully) understands that Global warming is a scare tactic, he will imply the Molten Salt reactors. I mean, if it isn't him, who will it be?
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If he does nothing but that, I would be more than happy I hope to hell he actually understands how much of a control tactic this new shit is. We are so close to free energy and all
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