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Twenty times the total amount of deuterium currently present in the world's oceans. Basically, you'd have to completely change the chemistry of the oceans on a
by wtracy 8y ago
Twenty times the total amount of deuterium currently present in the world's oceans.
Basically, you'd have to completely change the chemistry of the oceans on a global scale.
Also, AFAIK there is no realistic way to synthesize deuterium artificially (please let me know if I'm wrong!) so to get started you'd need to go out and find something like an order of magnitude more deuterium than exists on planet Earth. You'd have to scour a big chunk of the solar system.
So, not something an apocalyptic cult is going to pull off in the forseable future.
- helpfulTroll 8y agoYou'd have to scour a big chunk of the solar system. No, bombarding regular water with neutrons from fission reactions will produce heavy water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Production
- wtracy 8y agoI stand corrected.
- yborg 8y agoIf you have that kind of tech, much simpler to just alter the orbit of a 10-15 km wide asteroid and drop that on the planet.
- killjoywashere 8y ago> you'd have to completely change the chemistry of the oceans on a global scale We're working on it... Not with this particular additive, but we're definitely doing that, so it's possible.