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Freedom from fission
Jenda:
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No they don't. Breeder reactors provide fuel for other fission based reactors. Fusion reactors don't use plutonium or enriched uramiun - they use light molecules, like hydrogen and helium.
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If you hadn't, I would've.
Hydrogen-> Helium ->Beryllium->Oxygen->Fe(Iron), I think they taught us to be the Sun's fusion chain. Wouldn't it be beautiful if our hydrogen and helium powered plants would produce pure IRON as waste???
Laukev7:
--- Quote from: Jenda ---If you hadn't, I would've.
Hydrogen-> Helium ->Beryllium->Oxygen->Fe(Iron), I think they taught us to be the Sun's fusion chain. Wouldn't it be beautiful if our hydrogen and helium powered plants would produce pure IRON as waste???
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Ah, but we have a problem here. To produce hydrogen, you need either water or hydrocarbons. What if all the water gets turned into iron?
Jenda:
--- Quote from: Laukev7 ---Ah, but we have a problem here. To produce hydrogen, you need either water or hydrocarbons. What if all the water gets turned into iron?
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Not probable. And there's plenty of sources. Acids, Calcite etc... not just water (I'm thinking: many H composites)
And remember E=mc^2? One kilogram of Hydrogen is plenty of energy!!! (I know. We do not transform the H into energy...)
worker201:
In reality, we are not transforming anything into energy. We are releasing the nuclear binding energy. Because of the way binding energy works, there are 2 ways - break apart heavy items, or smash together light items. A quick glance at a graph of binding energy will show you exactly why fusion releases more energy than fission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_energy
Aloone_Jonez:
Either way the mass of the components after the reaction is less than it was before - the lost mass is converted to energy.
I woudn't worry about using hydrogen from water as the amount of water on the planet has increased since humans have been burning hydrocarbon fossil fuels. Using hydrogen from water will release oxygen which will help compensate for the oxygen lost in carbon dioxide and deforrestation.
--- Quote from: Jenda ---If you hadn't, I would've.
Hydrogen-> Helium ->Beryllium->Oxygen->Fe(Iron), I think they taught us to be the Sun's fusion chain. Wouldn't it be beautiful if our hydrogen and helium powered plants would produce pure IRON as waste???
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I don't know, aren't other elements produced as well, including gold, but there again aren't some radioactive isotopes produced as well?
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