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Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by the-dude on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:11AM (#28345036)
We are working on a totally new way to do cold fusion, our only problem is getting enough new fuel into the reactor without disturbing the running process.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by minhmeoke on Sunday August 29, 2021 @03:58PM (#28349949)
Could you use tiny pellets fed in by a linear actuator and gravity, rotary loader, or some kind of a conveyor belt? If you want an off-the-shelf solution that's easy to reload, perhaps you could repurpose the loading mechanism of a machine gun to dispense the pellets.
Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by Y_Y on Sunday August 29, 2021 @09:57AM (#28346724)
What does your reactor look like? What fuel are you using? How are you getting to ignition?
Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by iamgopal on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:55AM (#28345236)
Disclaimer : I know nothing about anything.

Hawking radiation ?

Laser tunnel ?

Magnetic canon ?

Centrifugal launcher ?

Vacuum diffusion ?

Electrical beam lensing ?

Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by a1369209993 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @10:45PM (#28352371)
> Hawking radiation ?

That actually does make for a fairly efficient (better than fusion in energy per unit fuel mass) reactor design in principle, but you need a sub-solar-mass black hole (in the 1 billion - 100 billion ton range), and there's no known practical way to produce one.

Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by desperate on Sunday August 29, 2021 @09:03AM (#28346361)
Tesla valve?
Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can... by mandmandam on Sunday August 29, 2021 @05:34AM (#28345410)
Maybe the solution is in your fridge?

... Not being flippant; I find that these kind of prompts can help in thinking from a new approach.