If you could have a fusion reactor in your backyard that was maintenance free, what would you use it for other than paying your electric bill?

[msc545]

[RandomGirl42]

Ty for inviting me to share. This is a thought provoking question and one I have never pondered. I'm not really sure. Prolly try to hook it up and figure out time travel and accidentally totally disrupt the entire time/space continuum so the entire universe implodes in on itself or something, so it's prolly a good thing I don't have one.

[msc545]

Well, now that you mention that we are having one delivered to your home in about 2 hours and they're going to set it up in your backyard. If you don't have a backyard, the front yard or your living room will do just fine. It's not very big and it doesn't make a lot of noise or smell bad. What are you going to do with it?

[RandomGirl42]

Prepare for universal implosion.

[msc545]

Yeah that's okay. We expected that and we've made provisions for it. Besides the implosion. What else are you going to do with it?

[RandomGirl42]

Well, now I guess I'm gonna' sell it on ebay or something 'cuz now that I think about it I don't really need a fusion reactor for anything and it looks really ugly out in the back yard and the squirrels and mice and birds are just gonna' move into it and make nests. I suppose I could make toast on it before I sell it.

[Staximus]

There was a machine I wanted to build since I was in high school. An almost perpetual motion machine. It would basically be like an electric motor and dynamo (not generator) on the same shaft. I won't bore you with technical aspects, but basically once you get it spinning, it will generate power until it slows down and stops. When that is, I don't know. I do know that it would generate a huge magnetic field. It would have to be shielded with lots of lead. My friend thinks it will disrupt Earth's magnetic field and cause a disaster, or open a wormhole or black hole.

[msc545]

Well that's very interesting. Can I get some schematics or something like that privately?

[Staximus]

I don't know where my drawings are anymore, I'll just kind of break it down. Are you familiar with the basic parts or components of an electric motor?

[msc545]

@Staximus I am, yes.

[Staximus]

You mean in like a hypothetical ideal situation, or a real world situation where people have to come and maintain it and create a nuclear disaster in my backyard?

[msc545]

No, it's self-maintaining. Nobody has to do anything to it and you can have unlimited power from it.

[Staximus]

Do I get the proper equipment an instrument to test it for radiation leakage? Do you know how much shielding has to go around a fusion reactor? The thing would be huge

[msc545]

This is a special fusion reactor that uses special shielding obtained from aliens that visited the Earth in the year 20 BC and that nobody discovered until about 2 weeks ago. So yeah, you don't need the equipment. You just have the reactor sitting there and it's not going to be easily moved.

[Staximus]

In that case then I'll take it. I'll grow ghost peppers indoors over the winter so I can get a head start on the spring growing season

[msc545]

Sounds right to me.

[msc545]

Can you please send me some of the peppers once they're ripe? I'm trying to grow my own but my reactor is busy doing other things.

[Staximus]

Can you handle a million Scoville?

[msc545]

Well - no. Are they THAT hot?

[Staximus]

A hot jalapeno is about 10,000 Scoville. A hot ghost pepper is about a million. There are peppers over 2 million but ghost peppers burn longer. They will get you high as fuck. You may find yourself staring in the mirror, questioning your life decisions.

[msc545]

This may shock you, but I'm going to pass.

[Sevenpointfive]

i could probably find a way to barbecue with it? do you want some plasma burgers or tritium tacos? deuteritium skewers?

[msc545]

Wow, could we have like barbecued chicken and stuff. I don't eat meat, that's why I'm asking.

[Sevenpointfive]

that's not how i grill on my fusion reactor. sorry

[msc545]

Okay, I understand. Maybe some nice plasma burgers?

[Sevenpointfive]

you got it! extra slimy coming up!

that sounds awful.

[msc545]

It does sound kind of awful actually.

[NathanDavis]

I know my Luna cat would claim it as her bed warmer for the winter...

and then, there's nothing I could about that...

[exitseven]

I would set up a grill on it and cook steaks and burgers.

[msc545]

That is actually a terrific idea that never even occurred to me!

[exitseven]

@msc545 All that excess heat should be used for something.

[msc545]

Well yeah there's that but equally importantly I believe. How would you clean your grill after you know 24 or 48 hours of intense grilling with a radioactive fusion reactor powering it?

[exitseven]

@msc545 this should do the trick. Made in USA
grillrescue.com/.../ultimate-grilling-enthusiast-pack

[msc545]

Yep you know that probably will do the trick actually. But it says made in the USA and I'm kind of skeptical about that since only the Chinese tend to make this kind of stuff. I wouldn't want to buy it if it was made in China because after all I wanted to last for about a hundred years. Can you guarantee or is there some way I can find out whether or not it was made in the US actually?

[exitseven]

There are indeed companies that can manufacture plastic products that are in the US. they are slightly more expensive but are better quality. 125 bucks for a plastic handle with 3 replacement heads along with a scraper is a good value.

[msc545]

Yeah that works for me. I wonder if I can get it in different colors and maybe with some designer logos and stuff on it? You know how important it is to impress the neighbors with this kind of stuff.

[exitseven]

After it absorbs enough radiation it will be pretty impressive with just the glow.

[Staximus]

Aramid fiber is not a USDA approved food. You're going to be eating those fibers and they will be burnt. That thing is stupid. Use a scraper and then an onion cut in half on a hot grill.

[Staximus]

Oh wait, the steaks will already be radioactive

[msc545]

Yeah, that's okay. Radioactive sticks tend to be a little bit more tender than the other ones I found.

[DrPepper12]

If it has an output of 1.21 gigawatts I have plans bruh... I have plans...

[front2back]

I would let material scientists use it to study radiation embrittlement of different reactor materials.

[CaptainSmartass]

Hell no. If I want cheap electric, I'll get solar panels put in.

Simples...