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noted. so taking the above parameters, is there a something-something reaction that is exothermic and somewhat self sustaining?

3.) i dont consider milk a food, its a drink, and its original form would be grass anyways. watery fruits are food, coconut milk is not, its other stuff is obviously i am not able to properly address this issue in the way i wanted to, so i will now remove myself from this thread and just watch.

fly to it. DUUHHH> it would be interesting if you could launch into space from a mid-air platform, i would imagine that it would require less energy due to it taking of horizontally and also being quite high in the atmosphere. of course it goes without saying that it may be possible to just have the whole island just fly up into space itself without being a mobile platform. but if it was its only capacity you would loose the ability to land and refuel or whatever on a mobile platform. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged(edit) im not in anyway eliminating ground based airports, just making a new one somewhere else

i don't suppose this argument stems from a plausible misunderstanding over the nutrient post which started this. i was assuming that the "nutrient" was referring to individual food items unaltered in anyway. example, a cricket eaten while living, unaltered. a cricket eaten after being cooked, altered a cricket after being added to something, altered the whole bet as stated before is based on the human body not able to get enough moisture from just food. so in order to measure the moisture content of food you cannot have it changed from its original state. and thus my bet stands, and i can firmly say i would win as well. and i under that pretense can conclude that the human body cannot receive enough moisture from unaltered foods, aside from insects, that it will dehydrate.

are you sure about that? so you are saying that you cannot have a thermonuclear reactor that is scaled down? so if i were to take 2 1in r^2 uranium rods, (control rods) and placed them side by side in a 3x3x3 in well that the resulting fission would exhibit exothermic energy? if so please bring your equations to bear, i would much like to see them.

hmm ok let me rephrase my question. what size would a capacitor have to be to take current from a battery and convert it to wall socket current.

i have absolutely no idea.

HA FESTIVUS!!!! AWESOME.. that deserves some reputation imho

well then i suppose my presumption was wrong, in that case like i stated above, have you any ideas on a exothermic sustainable reaction then? obviously not uranium because that is expensive and hard to obtain in the form and quantity i need it in, and hard to use for what i need it in. as for the deuterium i was assuming that being an isotope that it was not stable and as a result decayed, and a d-d reaction with a catalyst would expedite that decay releasing exothermic energy. the reason i picked deuterium is due to its availability to "civilians" i say civilians even though im military because i would still fall under that category when trying to buy a nuclear type fuel. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedoh yes, fyi, i do follow fusion reactors and such. i just want a nuclear reaction that is exothermic and self sustaining..

Ok, the bet is that you can glean enough moisture from food through out the day that you will not become dehydrated. so saying that then you can assume that foods that have been "prepared" with water should be excluded because they are not accurately representing the moisture content found in the food item itself. juice should be excluded too as it is prepared with water, however, juice made from a juicer i could see would not fall under such presumptions. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedfor instance, a noodle in the soup contains.. x moisture. and the amount of water required to digest the noodles is y. x<y so therefore eating the noodle would dehydrate you. but if you were to say soup noodle has x moisture and the amount of water required to digest the soup noodle is y then x>>>>y depending on the amount of water added to the soup. if you were to eat the soup noodle, it would not be an accurate representation of the actual moisture content found in the food itself.

fusion?? NO, definitely not, i am thinking fission.. and exothermic..

that is because you are drinking something that is prepared with water... if you were to not add any water to it you might not think the same way.

actually yes, toothpicks are cheap and light. and the fuel source is a representation of the fuel source if the model was to be made real.. aka giant floating island that acts as a halfway point between earth/space launching and an airport of some proportion. i am envisioning this as a 3-5 deck island.. (think aircraft carrier decks) that houses a energy system (the thermonuclear energy) a propulsion system, fuel storage, and .. stuff... i got the idea while reading the new popsci on the article about Virgin Galactic and how it launches a rocket plane from a plane in the air.My thought was to bring the whole damned airport into the air.. instead of the plane

its not meant to produce much energy. only enough to power a model

you can float on air considering air is considered a fluid but essentially yes i want to make an island that is flying. made out of toothpicks.. powered by a thermonuclear reactor(not made of toothpicks). the island contains enough space to land planes.. and such

pff the reactor in question is much to small to produce any significant source or radiation that exceeds background radiation.

i mean an aircraft carrier.. IN AIR BAM!

I was thinking about a nuclear reaction, what then may i ask, would be a good chemical-chemical reaction that is exothermic and self sustaining. also, available for civi use. i want to make a miniature thermonuclear reactor.. think like slightly larger than a cell phone small.

oh, that is unexpected form an isotope.. but ok, what do you suggest then for a slightly exothermic, self sustaining reaction?

Hello, i was wondering what is the approximate size of a capacitor that would charge to 128vdc aka house power. and what is the electron dissipation rate for such a capacitor. don't really know where to put this so ill try here before moving to physics

im planning to build a scale model of a floating island. im going to make it out of toothpicks(building materials), a mini thermonuclear reactor(energy) and fans(propulsion). for the purpose of having a floating, controllable runway with the ability to land other model planes on it. got any tips/ ideas?

What is the Thrust to Weight ratio? im planning to build a scale model of a floating island. im going to make it out of toothpicks(building materials), a mini thermonuclear reactor(energy) and fans(propulsion). for the purpose of having a floating, controllable runway with the ability to land other model planes on it. i wana see if it is even possible to make such a thing.

Are D-D reactions Self Sustaining and exothermic?

oh? never thought i would see those particular words in the same sentence in that order.. lol