Alaska Chat II

[cobolt]

Originally Posted by HighlandLady

You were smelling the sweet scent of money, m'dear!

No kiddin'! And some pretty darned good BBQ. Man, I miss me some Texas BBQ!

[HighlandLady]

Oooo....I think I may fire up the grill tonight, now that you mention it. Elk steaks, potato, green beans...ahhhhh.

Drat, forgot, I need propane. A trip to town is in order. Thank you, Cobolt

[cobolt]

Originally Posted by HighlandLady

Oooo....I think I may fire up the grill tonight, now that you mention it. Elk steaks, potato, green beans...ahhhhh.

Drat, forgot, I need propane. A trip to town is in order. Thank you, Cobolt

Sounds yummers. Saturday we had sun and 79 degree temps. You could smell cook outs everywhere. We're having a BBQ at work this week, although it's cloudy and blah....we do it from Apr-Sept anyway...

[HighlandLady]

We have an open sunporch in the back...I've been known to bundle up in the dead of winter to grill something. It is still protected enough from the winds. I have three empty propane tanks in the garage...hmmm, wonder how they all found their way there?

[cobolt]

Originally Posted by HighlandLady

We have an open sunporch in the back...I've been known to bundle up in the dead of winter to grill something. It is still protected enough from the winds. I have three empty propane tanks in the garage...hmmm, wonder how they all found their way there?

Doesn't the husband have the propane tank watch??

[Barkingowl]

Xa'at when you reappear can you send Cobolt a DM with the state archivist application?

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

Xa'at when you reappear can you send Cobolt a DM with the state archivist application?

I don't have it!

[HighlandLady]

Originally Posted by cobolt

Doesn't the husband have the propane tank watch??

Evidently not. I found two more. I know we took a couple hunting...the rest must be from the man not wanting to take the time to refill them and just buying new ones...

I am off for some hiking...or wind-sailing, depending on how far the winds take me

[Xa'at]

Someone tell me if this makes sense:

A fusion reaction can be initiated using many different chemical elements, but current scientific research is focusing on hydrogen, since it is the most readily available element and easiest to work with. The most success has been achieved fusing two isotopes (atoms of an element that have different amounts of neutrons) of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium. Deuterium is a stable, naturally occurring hydrogen isotope that makes up about 0.015% of all hydrogen atoms on Earth- chances are the last glass of water you drank had some deuterium in it. Tritium is also naturally-occurring, but it is radioactive, meaning it spontaneously ejects small particles called alpha, beta, or gamma particles. Because of this, long-term exposure to high levels of tritium is dangerous to most living organisms.

A deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reaction works like this: the nuclei of both elements are slung at each other at high enough speeds to overcome their magnetic repulsion. When they fuse together, they form a highly unstable helium isotope called He-5. He-5 has one of the shortest half-lives of all radioactive elements: after a speedy 0.00000000000000000002 seconds it decays by spitting out a highly charged neutron, leaving an atom of He-4, also very strongly energetic, behind. This is where the energy is released into heat which can then be converted to electricity using the same method as fission reactors.

[ASpilot2be]

Makes sense to me.