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China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine (www.livescience.com)
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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Helium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    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

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