In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 06 May 2011 12:56:56 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Deuterium is cheap, but helium-3 is potentially worth a fortune. If they >can tune cells to crank that out, that might be fantastic! I do not >think we would need He3 reactors for ordinary applications if we have >cold fusion, but I gather that for specialized applications such as >spacecraft it would have many advantages. I do not know much about it.
I suspect because:- D + He3 => He4 + P + 18.35 MeV Lots of energy, the reactants are light weight, and the end products are both positive ions that are easy to control and direct. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
