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![[0632] Energy Crisis I](/comics/2014-11-10-0632-energy-crisis-i.png "[0632] Energy Crisis I")
It’s incredible what you can build with Lego these days…
- David: The heat’s becoming unbearable!
- Ye Thuza: But we save a lot of heating oil this way.
- David: I don’t care! If she keeps going, she’ll eventually set the house on fire!
- Ye Thuza: All right. I’ll have a talk with her.
- Ye Thuza: Yuna! What did I say about cold fusion experiments in the dining room?!
- Yuna: Mommy! The correct term’s Low Energy Nuclear Reactions!
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Thank god it’s not LARISA handling the low-energy nuclear reaction.
(It probably wouldn’t stay low for long.)
Another time Yuna was performing the Double Slit Experiment with Cloud’s matchbox cars.
And this is just the beginning… *Terrified*
But it’s called “cold” fusion. Clearly, something else is driving up the heat.
Apparently my computer is a cold fusion experiment, ‘cos it does the same thing to my room sometimes.
And this is just the reactor engine for her new giant robot!
Gee. David and YeThuza have the best gene pool in the world. I think their family can’t get any better than this.
@ AckAckAck:
If the like button was still here, I would totally vote up your comment.
Yes it is the first part of her sinister plan. Tire out her parents then unleash an obliterater bot with it’s giant obliterater legs and stuff. Get the reference?
I see Ye Thuza’s pulling the plug. The 64K question is whether the box generated more energy than it was drawing from the mains.
If not, they’re simply heating the house electrically; oil is probably cheaper.
They would all have mild radiation burns without a magnetic plasma containment unit
David: Hang on… and what about ionising radiation? With this much heat output-
Yuna: Alpha and beta particles aren’t very penetrative and are stopped by the casing. You’re safe from gamma rays too – they get dealt with by the inverse square law.
David: Well that’s all right – for us! You’re still going to get a dangerous dose.
Ye Thuza: And I don’t want to be the one to take you down to the hospital with radiation poisoning! What would I tell the doctors, for a start?!
David: And… wait a minute! – Neutrons aren’t ionising, are they?! So, what’s the neutron flux like from this, Yuna!
Yuna: Thermal neutron emissions are rather low, as it happens…
David: And what about fast neutrons?
Yuna …they have a lower probability of striking nuclei…? *nervous grin*
David: Shut it down.
>:=)>
@ Greenwood Goat:
low eergy neutrons are what appear in cold fusion experiments, they are not very penetrating at all. (I forget if it’s bunk though, from what I recall it’s either impossible, or no-ones managed to get more out than they put in yet)
They just need to add on a small Labratory annex for yuna to work in.
First, move the Reactor into an Oven Housing so they can also use the heat for Cooking. Maybe add the Water Heater to the system as well.
Then, run a duct into the main house with a thermostat controlling the fan.
Then, everyone will be happy.
They can pay for the Annex with the First month’s energy savings.
@ abowden:
Thermal neutrons can still make other things radioactive.
Cold fusion in the dining room? And look at that thing, it looks like it was made out of legos. Very well done society, you’ve produced smart children that are still immature, bravo bravo.
Does Yuna look older to you?
For that matter, about what age are all of the crew now? I know they’re getting older in the art, just compare Sandra’s height from the first strips to now, but I’m a horrible judge of body age.
Lathiyades wrote:
Wouldn’t the legos melt then? Seems a bit “warm” for plastic to remain solid.
The Sandra and Woo and Gaia comics are starting to look very much alike, art-wise.
NOT trash-talking. Just an observation.
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@ Lathiyades:
Actually, rather than Legos, I’d say it was more recycled air-conditioning and vehicle parts.
@ Jumtrev:
Well it’s drawn by the same person yaknow.
Kinda like how the Protagonist from Mighty Flip Champs looks a bit like Shantae with clothes on.
Again both are made by the same person.
Just sayin.
CAD97 wrote:
Larisa was almost 13 not that long ago, so I guess Sandra and her friends would be early 13 or around. This assumes the age gap between Sandra and Larisa isn’t too big, it can be almost a year even if nobody skipped or had to redo years in school. I can’t tell for Yuna though.
@ Jumtrev:
No really? I thought they were drawn by completely different artists!
Yunie! Do the thing.
Yuna is out to demonstrate that the second law of thermodynamics is merely a statistical observation and thus just a guideline. @ Neutrino:
Also, this might be just me, but while I’ve always thought Ye Thurza was attractive, I think she’s never been so HOT.
(I’m sorry, someone had to say it, please don’t beat me.)
WOW! I’ll hate to see the energy bill! =P
Bree wrote:
Well, since Cloud entered his teen age, she’s officially received the MILF status. SMOLDERING MILF that is.
Also time to pay the pun tax.
Bree wrote:
no problem 😀 I wanted to say it to… alas I am late.
Petah-Petah wrote:
“Cold fusion” is the term for achieving fusion between atoms anywhere below 5,000 Celsius (the temperature inside the sun or a thermal-nuclear explosion)
I thought the strip took place in the US, but they have Euro outlets. (I know, details, details.)
i would be more worried about the Neutron radiation then the heat.
Isn’t this illegal to do this at home in most countries.
Shamdon wrote:
It’s Yuna’s family, The law obeys them.
Ah nuclear jokes, always so funny and so practical, it is really a fun thing, specially when in comments are continued. Hope it doesn’t turn a volatile situation with the stress of heat
Valkeiper2012 wrote:
It’s 5,000 Celsius at the surface, in the center, which is where the fusion is happening, it’s 15 million or so Celsius. It gets even more fun though, there’s a tremendous pressure in the center of the sun and without that pressure, you need like 100 million Celsius instead.
That is, if you want to do fusion like the sun does.
A working version of one of these With controlled direction and concentration as desired would be the result of Yuna and Larissa teaming up. If it ever happens bE AfRAiD.
@ Greenwood Goat:
Hmm. Strictly speaking, for there to be steam rising from the furniture, you’d have to be having gamma heating effect so great the general area radiation levels would be immense.
As as for those neutrons…what about neutron activation!? Without a shielding water volume around the device, they’d be activating a lot of the furniture, house materials, etc. Well, there’s a good time if I ever saw one.
@ CAD97:
I think the age has avanced 2 years. Main crew 12-14, Yuna 9-11.
Wie ich sehe hat dich das Thema deines Blog-Eintrags von vor einem Monat inspiriert.
I see you got inspired by what you talked about in your blog post a month ago. 😉
@ Switch Master:
Ye Thuza’s family*
@ Petah-Petah:
Actually, the “cold” in “cold fusion” refers to the relative coldness of the reaction compared to the thousands of degrees needed for normal fusion to occur. Because cold fusion is only a hypothetical type of nuclear reaction with no current model to demonstrate how it works, no one is really sure what the by-products of cold fusion are. It can, however, be safely assumed that because a normal reaction requires immense heat (like the inside of a star), cold fusion may heat up the room where it is located.
I guess that the Death Ray didn’t quite pan out…
It is almost 2015, they can always wait to get the Mr. Fusion fusion generator, along with ’80s retro-chic fashion, and shitty 3D CGI effects. 😉
(Wait, was it a true fusion generator, or just a Plasma Arc Waste Destruction System that was marketed as a “fusion” generator?)
Why can’t we actually have children this brilliant?
@ John:
You need to meet more children then, some are quite brilliant. Maybe not up to unlocking LENR in the dining room, but that’s mainly due to a lack of knowledge not intelligence. There are children I’ve meet who, with the knowledge accumulated by a several doctorates in physics and chemistry, could be up to the task.
Which is why there are people working on LENR now. Smart kids, who used time to acquire the knowledge to apply their intelligence in brilliant ways.
> tag: chemistry
Nuclear fusion is not really chemistry.
@ Crystalgate:
It was a joke >_>
(I thought about making that joke, too, but fortunately, people beat me to it.)
John wrote:
We do but the school systems are designed to quash such anomalies.
Lathiyades wrote:
So you prefer the adults that are still immature that actually run most things?
Lathiyades wrote:
Just now noticed the author’s comment, which apparently confirms exactly this: it’s made from legos.
@ tim:
So it’s called cold fusion because it needs less degrees compared to regular nuclear fusion?
To be honest, I was partially joking when I made that post, but I did wonder why it was called “cold” fusion. Learned something new, it seems.