Man has always looked for different sources of energy, economic, efficient and practical sources. It has always been a dream of getting unlimited free energy. Though impossible, but by overcoming certain difficulties it is somewhat possible. The word ‘unlimited’ here means that a certain source of energy that will run for a lifetime of may be even more.
Every day in the morning we wake up when the gleaming rays of the sun falls on our eyes or the window. But there must be something that keeps the sun glowing every morning of our lives or may be a thousand lives. At the very beginning of the universe or may be the galaxy, what we call the sun was a glowing mass of gas. As the gasses cooled they became denser. More is the density greater the gravity. The gasses compacted with their own gravity. As more masses of gas started to accumulate around the condensed gas the force of gravity increased. The sun began to get crushed under its own gravity. As the density increased the gas molecules became more and more closer and. The kinetic energy of the gasses started to increase. Two nuclei could collide with each other overcoming the force of repulsion between them. Thus lighter elements like hydrogen combined to form comparatively heavier elements like helium with the liberation of huge amount of energy, like those of the hydrogen bomb. The forces of nature began a war between themselves: the gravitational force and the nuclear force. The gravitational force tries to crush the sun to a smaller volume and the nuclear explosions try to break the sun to smaller masses. In this galactic war if gravity wins we get a black hole, if nuclear forces are stronger we get smaller planets and cold stars. But we don’t want anybody to win otherwise we won’t exist. Lucky for us the two forces are at par with each other in the sun. None of them are winning. That’s how we get to see our sun glowing every morning.
We know almost everything about gravity, bur the nuclear forces are a little hard to control. Man has been able to control the atom bomb and turn it into a nuclear reactor. Bur the hydrogen bomb involves fusion, where more amount of energy is liberated. The heat from an atom bomb is used to trigger the hydrogen bomb which in turn releases huge energy. If somehow fusion reaction is controlled then we can have another sun in the palm of our hands. We can control the emissions, heat and every kind of energy liberated from it. The fuel to this reaction can be sea water, which is almost limitless.
In the movie Spiderman 2, we saw Doc Ock trying to control the sun, but somehow the experiment fails. Then everything was being pulled into the sun, this was because the gravitational force was winning and increasing. But creating a sun isn’t that easy. It requires huge amount of electricity to control the shape of the sun. It may require almost all the electrical energy produced in the world to do that.
May be a decade or even a century later we won’t have to turn off the lights and fan when we leave the room.
The sun
very wel wrttn re...learnt many thngz 4m dis artcle...thnx shoppy...:D
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