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>>The hard part is getting more energy out than you put in. I thought this was impossible due to law of conservation of energy. Well eventually we get lucky w
by kamaal 6y ago
>>The hard part is getting more energy out than you put in.
I thought this was impossible due to law of conservation of energy.
Well eventually we get lucky with things like gravity, and water cycles doing the work for us by giving us rivers and we build a dam around it.
But you can never design a process where you can take more than what you put in.
- tuatoru 6y agoYou're forgetting the mass-energy equivalence, E = mc^2. Both fission and fusion are elaborate ways of converting a small fraction of the mass of the fuel to energy. Also, "you can't get more than you put in" applies to closed systems. Reactors are open systems.