minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoIt’s not a joke if you hit boron with a neutron it releases the energy in the form of an alpha particle which is just a helium atom. So take some boron-10 put it in a neutron flux and you get helium. This is being done in nearly every nuclear power plant in the world every second linkfedilink
minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·17 hours agoHelium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron linkfedilink
It’s not a joke if you hit boron with a neutron it releases the energy in the form of an alpha particle which is just a helium atom.
So take some boron-10 put it in a neutron flux and you get helium. This is being done in nearly every nuclear power plant in the world every second