On Jan 24, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Edmund Storms
<stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote:
Indeed,
However plasma physics is by itself interesting, so it is nice to
have
some big science experiments running. Science is not about profit
but having
fun!
Well Jouni, when over 25 billion dollars are spent, the question is
who has
the fun from this money. As a tax payer, I could have had much
more fun if
the money had been sent on something that lowered my energy bill
and reduced
the risk of global warming . But to each his own.
If plasma physicist would like really do something that could spawn
profits on a long run, then they should study helium-3 fusion.
Yes, and where do you get the He3? Yes, this is present on the
Moon, but at
what cost?
Some LENR systems produce tritium and this decays into He3. Could a
LENR system be engineered to supply enough
He3 to make this sort of hot fusion practical?
No, because tritium is a very minor product of LENR. If LENR worked,
the energy created by this process could be used directly without the
need to create a big machine to use the He3.
Ed
Harry
