The Enron Egg - A portable nuclear reactor for the home (and camping)

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jn1
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12 Jan 2025 12:35pm
I came across this site just then:

enron.com/pages/the-egg

20% enriched Uranium - not enough to make a weapon. Supplies 200 Amps for 10 years (I assume that is at 115V ?).

They mentioned taking it on camping trips. I wonder now crash proof this device is ?

I think this is a good thing, but I'm a bit worried about this product getting in the hands of the mass stupid and anti-social. Thoughts ?
hilly
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12 Jan 2025 10:41am
jn1 said..Thoughts ?



BS
decrepit
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12 Jan 2025 12:03pm
If it's too good to be true -----------------------------------
myscreenname
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12 Jan 2025 3:56pm
I'll wait until I see it on temu
Mark _australia
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12 Jan 2025 7:00pm
Yes gotta be a wind up

it would make it ridiculously easy to make a dirty bomb
or someone cluey enough could further enrich the core material
Froth Goth
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12 Jan 2025 7:12pm
Sounds so good im not even gonna click the link. Thats the hot singles in your area of power supplys. Id just live up a tree.
jn1
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12 Jan 2025 10:18pm
Soo..... is anyone going to preorder one ?
philn
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13 Jan 2025 5:35am
Enron is a dirty word in the USA. There's no way a legitimate company would choose this name. It's got to be an elaborate joke.
HotBodMon
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13 Jan 2025 9:45am



elmo
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13 Jan 2025 7:37am
Perfect for the home handyman or tinkerer, ideal for modding
fangman
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13 Jan 2025 9:39am
Philn is correct, it's an elaborate joke. From the T&C's on the Enron Website:"THE INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE IS FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PARODY, REPRESENTS PERFORMANCE ART, AND IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY."
Mark _australia
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13 Jan 2025 12:31pm
I'm doing a kickstarter for my better Thorium version
made $15000 already
Carantoc
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13 Jan 2025 1:23pm
If you replace the thorium with dilithium crystals you could go warp speed.
Then again if you replace the dilithium crystals with the eye of harmony you could go to both yesterday and tomorrow.
jn1
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13 Jan 2025 7:46pm
Thanks Fangman for setting it straight. You would think they could've waited till 1st April ?

I must admit. I got a bit suckered by the site. I saw the article on slashdot, a tech site I have been reading since 1998.. Although, I did find it a bit odd that this device did not picture the thick power cabling that it would require. Certainty not a thing you would have indoors sitting on a table. And then of course, would ARPANSA approve such a device to be used in AU ?

Company Defunct: March 1, 2007

"On December 2, 2024, the Enron web site relaunched[6] with terms and conditions stating that it is parody.[7]"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron

Anyway.... "suck-errrr !!!"
Gorgo
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13 Jan 2025 10:25pm
That won't stop Dutton promising to have one in every home by Christmas.
Froth Goth
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14 Jan 2025 7:02am
The eye of harmony sounds like what theyll be calling gaming laptops with intel/nvidia chipsets in the year 3030

Or a cult i forgot i joined when blacked out that weekend in cairns
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