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Ask HN: Could you combine photovoltaic with fusion reactions?
Imagine photovoltaic cells that receive gamma rays from a fusion reaction.
Why are current fusion experiments focused on kinetic energy to heat water to push a turbine instead of photovoltaic harvesting of energy?
- thedevindevops 7y agoYou are looking for something similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optoelectric_nuclear_battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optoelectric_nuclear_battery or another https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device however these don't operate on gamma rays directly but work is ongoing https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0268-1242/23/8/085001 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0268-1242/23/8/08...