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C Olival Send message Joined: 6 Sep 10 Posts: 209 Credit: 10,675 RAC: 0 |
Neutron fusion, perhaps another way to aproach the fusion process, perhaps viable. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30673 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Interesting, i wonder too if the Voyager probes ever looked back at Earth for a spectral analysis. Nope. But one we sent to Venus did. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Neutron fusion, perhaps another way to approach the fusion process, perhaps viable. Fusion is a nuclear reaction involving both protons and neutrons. Probably you mean muon-provoked fusion, which was proposed by Andrej Saharov many years ago but never proved working. The physics of fusion is very well known, it is the engineering of fusion reactors which poses huge challenges. Tullio |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
Fusion powered cheap power plants are only twenty years away and they have been that way since I was in college forty years ago. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Fusion powered cheap power plants are only twenty years away and they have been that way since I was in college forty years ago. I've talked with prof.Bruno Coppi of MIT, the father of the Alcator tokamak, and he has been proposing a kind of tokamak costing far less than ITER, but so far none has been built. They are called IGNITOR and should cost about 200 million dollars each. Tullio |
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