not sure if anyone has thought of this before, but a small fusion reactor inside an expansion card to recharge the device (and the rest of the city you live in)
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Iâm waiting for the flux capacitor expansion card.
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Is that a joke, though?
For some of our greatest minds, it is not a joke but a viable alternative. The two options are to bury spent fuel that is still warm for thousands of years, or to use it in a small reactor in an expansion card to power just one device.
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fusion doesnât create âspent fuelâ. youâre thinking of fission.
Fusion power has, so far, two applications in human technology:
- Our most powerful nuclear weapons.
- Gigantic experimental facilities that are trying to figure out how to maintain stable fusion AND capture more energy than is put in.
Fusion operates on fusing (typically) hydrogen, with lots of extra energy released. It is the process otherwise only occuring in stars.
The power plants you think of use fission, typically certain Uranium isotopes but it could in theory be done with Plutonium or some others.
This post is clearly a joking reference to things like âMr Fusionâ or whatever the powerplant in the âBack to the Futureâ time travel delorean was called. 