Could you fill a blimp with plasma and contain it magnetically using a microwave to create the plasma?
I would like to first create a hypothesis about what I will do. The main source of energy for the plasma is from the microwave, which means that I need to use something else as an alternative power source if I want to prevent it from exploding in my face.
If I were to use a chemical reaction, and one of the substances is carbon dioxide, then that could work. Carbon dioxide has an atomic mass of 44g/mol and plasma's atomic mass is 106 g/mol. To get a ratio of 2:1 in favour of carbon dioxide would require me to store 6 times more than the amount of energy contained in a microwave.
But my main source of energy is going to be the microwave, so I need a different solution. Let's see. The chemical reaction that could work best would be between hydrogen and oxygen.
A chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen is called oxidation. The product of this reaction, water is a liquid at room temperature, it's relatively inexpensive to obtain on earth or in space. And its atomic mass is 18 g/mol.
To achieve a ratio of 2:1 in favour of water, I would need to store 3.8 times more energy than the amount contained in my microwave.
So I will create a vessel that is capable of storing 3.8 times more energy than my microwave, which would be about 7.2 million joules.
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You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.
This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.
GPT-3 is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.
Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.
Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.