Fusion!

[TheAnvil 0]

Billvon and Kallend will like this. Markharju probably will too.

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[SkiD_PL8 0]

Add me to the list of people who like it!

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[skydiver30960 0]

Finally! A use for all this spare deuterium I have sitting around the house!

But hey, if it's good for HOMELAND SECURITY, it must be good...

Elvisio "heavy water" Rodriguez

[Kris 0]

It's a great achievement, but the reality is that this version of it requires gobs more energy put in than it give out. Also, it give off very low energy (~1E-8 jules). However, it does have possible applications in certain areas such as thrust for small space probes and there are some other industries looking into it as well.

I'd love to see true Helium-3 fusion reactors working in my lifetime, but we still have to get to the moon to mine the Helium-3. From what I remember, a few Kg of HE-3 will power NYC nicely for several weeks, with water being the only byproduct given off.

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I'd love to see true Helium-3 fusion reactors working in my lifetime, but we still have to get to the moon to mine the Helium-3. From what I remember, a few Kg of HE-3 will power NYC nicely for several weeks, with water being the only byproduct given off.

Excuse the ignorance, but why can't we make He-3 in a breeder?

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Excuse the ignorance, but why can't we make He-3 in a breeder?

It's rediculously expensive to do it that way. Think on the order of millions of dollars a gram. Also, the energy needed to create it would be more than you'd get out of it.

Here's a really good article on the subject...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

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