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DnD concept time

Step one: have a familiar

Step two: have the spell "wall of force"

Step three: acquire and expend dust of dryness, then keep the expended pellet

When a used dust of dryness pellet is crushed the cube 15ft on all sides of water reappears

Hand this pellet to your familiar

On your turn your familiar walks up to the enemy

You cast wall of force creating a 7.5ft on each side cube

Your familiar (inside the cube with your enemies) crushes the bead

As the water reappears it wants to expand, but it can't the wall of force is indestructible.

Compressed to eight times it's regular density, the water undergoes nuclear fusion !!! With your enemy inside !!!

Resummon your familiar later

Use this trick to turn your enemies nought but a wisp of ionised gas

I'm going to build a kobold orbital bombardment platform and drop a dust off dryness nuke on you goblin rail gun

The dust of dryness used pellet is within a small wall of force cube and so when it hits the floor the pellet will be broken and release 95 570 liters of water. With nowhere to go due to being in a tiny unbreakable sphere the water will undergo nuclear fusion.

Then we will drop concentration on the wall of force releasing the nuclear blast equivalent to 228 gigatons of TNT

Thus I will prove that kobolds are the best

I’m going to build a goblin railgun.

Looks like there’s about to be drama in the nuclear fusion world again.

I'm pretty shocked the fusion news isn't all over tumblr, all over everything, because for the first time there's a light at the end if the tunnel. There's a viable path out of global warming and environmental degradation that doesn't just kick the problem down the road a little further.

To explain: solar and wind are far better energy producers than fossil fules but they still have a fairly substantial environmental impact. Solar panel and wind turbine components have to come from somewhere. And you need well, a bunch of them to produce energy. Both require batteries full of toxic components to store energy for when generation is taking place.

They are, I want to reiterate, much cleaner and safer energies than fossil fule based energy. They are available now and we should be using them. But they are also not truly long term solutions to the need for power, any more than nuclear fission is.

But now there's a way out, a path forward. Humanity bites the bullet and uses solar, wind, geothermic, and hydroelectric to bridge the gap because now it's not an infinite gap. Somewhere in the next 10-50 years we'll probably have a fusion power plant built.

Capitalism will undoubtedly slow things down and restrict this vital technology to the richest countries. I'm not saying the fight is over, I'm saying that a win condition exists at all now.

This is the holy grail of energy. This is energy where we build the plants then basically just maintain them and there is no pollution. There is no having to keep harvesting the Earth, or birds flying into turbines, or requiring massive amounts of components to harvest the energy like solar. This works in dark places, at night, in the desert.

I haven't felt hope for a long time. I am feeling it right now. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is a tiny star.

Promising stuff. Looking forward to seeing it work one day.

Fusion, anyone? Not quite yet, but researchers show just how close we’ve come

The dream of igniting a self-sustained fusion reaction with high yields of energy, a feat likened to creating a miniature star on Earth, is getting closer to becoming reality, according the authors of a new review article in the journal Physics of Plasmas.

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) engaged in a collaborative project led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, report that while there is at least one significant obstacle to overcome before achieving the highly stable, precisely directed implosion required for ignition, they have met many of the demanding challenges leading up to that goal since experiments began in 2010.

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