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I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time (lemmy.world)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

this is really all you need. Centrifuge that thing

See that just makes me think you're imagining tossing a rock into a spinny thing, which I'm fairly sure isn't right. You need to do something to make it gaseous first, but I've no idea what.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, obviously it's not THAT easy. But, again, can be done.

    Gaseous uranium hexafluoride is obtained through sublimation at conditions that are reachable with old tech.

    And overall, even natural uranium can be used, you'll just need a lot of it and it won't cause a chain reaction, but rather a set of small individual reactions. But the water will heat up somewhat. Also, you don't necessarily have to go with uranium specifically if you're not sure you'll make it work.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Gaseous uranium hexafluoride is obtained through sublimation at conditions that are reachable with old tech.

    Either you googled that, or your level of knowledge is very much not representative of most people's. Either way it doesn't meet the implicit conditions of the meme.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Fair enough. But then again, we went way too far from the meme :)

    Plenty of people could make at least small amounts of electricity given respective resources, if they remember anything from school.

    E=mc^2^ will require a bit more involvement. But it can be worked out.

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