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To: Cincinatus
"That's highly debatable, but suppose for a moment I grant you that. What are you going to do with the 3He you harvest?"

Uh, you did catch the part about fuel for fusion reactors?? Fusion between He3 and H1 (protons) to yield He4 is one of the "easier" ones to initiate, with the benefit that the product of the reaction isn't itself radioactive.

23 posted on 05/29/2003 4:44:05 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Fusion between He3 and H1 (protons) to yield He4 is one of the "easier" ones to initiate

Nope. Deuterium-3He fusion is an order of magnitude more difficult to initiate than deuterium-tritium fusion; it requires much higher confining pressures and temperatures. And we haven't even reached break even (power in = power out) on D-T fusion yet! This is the part that Schmitt always leaves out of his spiel.

24 posted on 05/29/2003 4:50:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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