{"id":6241,"date":"2010-08-13T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2010-08-13T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:00:23","slug":"the-power-of-redefinition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6241","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Redefinition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/25581\/\">Particle Accelerators Could Work As Power Generators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If, by &#8220;power generator&#8221; you mean &#8220;source of fuel for a separate nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine the protons in this accelerator are sent into a block of uranium. Each proton might then be expected to generate a shower of some 60,000 neutrons in the material and most of these would go on to be absorbed by the nuclei to form 60,000 plutonium atoms. When burned in a nuclear reactor, each plutonium atom produces 0.2 GeV of fission energy. So 60,000 of them would produce 12,000 GeV.<\/p>\n<p>Using this back-of-an-envelope calculation, Wilson worked out that a single 1000 GeV proton could lead to the release of 12,000 GeV of fission energy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or you could throw the Uranium in a reactor and get the Plutonium for free while you generate power.  Which we already can do \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particle Accelerators Could Work As Power Generators If, by &#8220;power generator&#8221; you mean &#8220;source of fuel for a separate nuclear reactor. Imagine the protons in this accelerator are sent into a block of uranium. Each proton might then be expected &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}