Comments on: Mr. Fusion? No, Mr. Pringle http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/ Science served wet and salty Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eric Wolff http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/#comment-600 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:14:04 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/#comment-600 Actually, I found an answer to our questions in the Popular Science article: “Every hour, the first commercial version will turn 10 tons of auto waste—tires, plastic, vinyl—into enough natural gas to produce 17 million BTUs of energy (it will use 956,000 of those BTUs to keep itself running). ”

That’s pretty efficient, even if it is mostly theoretical. I still await real world results.

]]> By: Eric Wolff http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/#comment-599 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:11:06 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/#comment-599 I cross posted this with my work blog (as I occasionally do) and a physicist posted to say that theoretically it makes sense. Though he also asked about the energy question.

]]> By: Miriam Goldstein http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/#comment-597 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:53:55 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/#comment-597 As long as the net loss isn’t too bad, there is value in getting rid of used tires and unrecyclable plastic. But my “too-good-to-be-true” meter goes BOINK at this, too.

]]> By: Sam http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/#comment-595 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:04:01 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/01/12/mr-fusion-no-mr-pringle/#comment-595 Even if it works (and I am suspicious), does it use more energy than it produces?

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