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Better get cold fusion working, or find a way to mine asteroids profitably...
by cpearce 16y ago
Better get cold fusion working, or find a way to mine asteroids profitably...
- WorkerBee 16y agoFusion works (in that it successfully fuses atoms) and has since the 1960s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor You don't get more energy out than you put in, but if your goal is to make helium, that's hardly the point - just about every other industrial process also consumes energy.
- Retric 16y agoThe problem is you need to be really close to breakeven or your going to be wasting GWh per lb of helium.