{"id":4190,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4190"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-praise-of-iter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-praise-of-iter\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of ITER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In praise of ITER<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 12, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAt fifteen million centigrade<br \/>\nA doughnut cloud of gas<br \/>\nWill show how energy is made<br \/>\nFrom such a little mass<br \/>\nDeuterium and tritium<br \/>\nCombine in searing heat<br \/>\nSome neutrons heat and helium<br \/>\nAre formed just where they meet<br \/>\nThe neutrons smash at massive speeds<br \/>\nInto a stainless shell<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s energy to meet our needs<br \/>\nProduced from heat of hell<br \/>\nA cage made from magnetic fields<br \/>\nKeeps plasma in its place<br \/>\nIn forty years perhaps the yields<br \/>\nWill make it worth the chase<br \/>\nThe tokamak of fusion fame<br \/>\nMay one day save us all<br \/>\nBut now it&#8217;s like a physics game<br \/>\nThe price tag isn&#8217;t small<br \/>\nLets head off to the South of France<br \/>\nWhere ITER&#8217;s being built<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s watch the engineering dance<br \/>\nAnd back it to the hilt<br \/>\nAlthough about ten billion quid<br \/>\nMay seem a lot of cash<br \/>\nOne day they&#8217;ll boast of what they did<br \/>\nTo make a tiny flash!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, is being built in<br \/>\nthe South of France. A fusion reactor, a man-made sun, designed to prove that<br \/>\nyou can eventually get more electricity out than you put into such a device.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, you heat heavy hydrogen up to an impossible temperature (much much<br \/>\nhotter than inside the sun) and when the atoms collide they will be going fast<br \/>\nenough to stick together, a controlled hydrogen bomb.<\/p>\n<p>From very little matter you get a lot of energy this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In praise of ITER by cricketjeff on October 12, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved At fifteen million centigrade A doughnut cloud of gas Will show how energy is made From such a little mass Deuterium and tritium Combine in searing heat Some neutrons heat and helium Are formed just where they meet The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4190","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7318,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4190\/revisions\/7318"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}