InnerworldMar 2

China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine

https://lemmy.world/post/43748878

China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine - Lemmy.World

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Show threadoyzmoMar 2
Helium is a non-renewable substance which there is a global shortage of. I wonder how much it takes to lift that thing 😅
Show threadBussyCatMar 2
Helium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron
Show threadtrolololol
I need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.
Mar 2 at 8:51amWeb
Show threadSneezycatMar 2
It’ll be really funny in 100 000 years.
Show threadBussyCatMar 2

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