To many people here restart the long time dead hot fusion dream....
Hot fusion of all forms produces high energy (> 10MeV) neutrons. These
carry away most reaction energy. But there is no way to harvest it.
Except in a very thick wall as very low grade temperature...
Research like ITER simply is fraud.
Livermore laser ignition is a military project aiming at simulating the
first compression step in a thermonuclear bomb. Talking about
breakthrough in energy production is just obscuring the reality to
harvest Christmas goodwill...
Use solar with battery and stay independent.
J.W.
On 18.12.2022 21:55, Jones Beene wrote:
Even so - isn't it true that the bottom line is that it will be far
cheaper to make solar cells, given the abundance of silicon on the
moon - and get electrical power that way compared with fusion.
Far far far cheaper.
Robin <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au> wrote:
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Sun, 18 Dec 2022 08:33:26 -0500:
Hi,
>In that case, a robotic mining system would suffice. Combine that with
>Heinlein's mass driver and we're all set.
Note that 12 kWh/m^2 was a high order estimate. Given the size of the
Moon, and Earth currently using about 500 quad /
annum, the total resource would last us at most 3 years, if it had to
supply all our energy needs.
I think it might be a better idea to just use the Lunar He3 as a local
resource to provide power for a Lunar colony and
further exploration of the Solar system.
Here on Earth, we can "easily" make our own from the D + D -> He3 + n
reaction.
(Or if my device works, the H + D -> He3 reaction).
>
>Well, we need a hot Fusion device first.
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