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Sure. I believe there's some fusion happening around us all the time. It's a statistical event. But to get a useful amount of fusion is different. Yes, plas
by YZF 11y ago
Sure. I believe there's some fusion happening around us all the time. It's a statistical event. But to get a useful amount of fusion is different.
Yes, plasma is very difficult. You need to get it hot enough and in the right shape and in the right position at the right time. But even when you do that there are still many hard problems to solve. One of them is irradiation embrittlement. Capturing all the energy efficiently and converting it efficiently into power is also difficult (steam turbines I guess). The efficiencies of the input side are also a problem (the energy intake of creating the plasma, managing it, "fusing" it). All these inefficiencies eat into your energy budget making it harder to get significantly more energy out than you put in... Anyways, I'm not a physicist, but every little problem I hear about related to this process seems to be of monumental proportions and there are many of those...