New design could finally help to bring fusion power closer to reality

Re:New design could finally help to bring fusion power close... by mikeash on Monday August 10, 2015 @05:22PM (#10037481)

I had to run the numbers on that Space Shuttle thing, just to see. The Space Shuttle weighed about 4.5 million pounds at launch, and had a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.5, meaning there was about 2.25 million pounds of net upward force on it. So each of those metal ties was capable of carrying a bit over a million pounds of load. Neat.

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Re:New design could finally help to bring fusion power close... by dosshell on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @03:07AM (#10039477)

And in Si units about: 500 000 kg (453 592.37)

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Re:New design could finally help to bring fusion power close... by gizmo686 on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @04:03AM (#10039632)

kg is a unit of mass.The Si unit of force is the Newton.

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Re:New design could finally help to bring fusion power close... by richmarr on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @06:45AM (#10040096)

What's the SI unit of pedantry?

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Re:New design could finally help to bring fusion power close... by blackbeard on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @07:40AM (#10040275)

Easier to understand than the American/Imperial one :)

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