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By now everyone knows that Fusion, if we succeed, is going to provide us with abundant clean energy. But Fusion is not just another way to power your lightbulb
by ThomPete 4y ago
By now everyone knows that Fusion, if we succeed, is going to provide us with abundant clean energy.
But Fusion is not just another way to power your lightbulbs, fusion is a completely new type of energy.
With fusion we can in principle reach 10% of the speed of light which would be revolutionary for space travel.
But even wilder, because it's technically a sun we would over time be able to create basic materials like, Gold, Neon, Sodium, Magnesium, Silicon, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, Gallium, Germanium.
It would also mean abundant energy to create synthetic materials that could even replace use of fossil fuels in our materials.
- VaxWithSex 4y agoIt's a different environment than the sun and other isotopes are fused. The plasma is a lot less dense, with a lot less pressure but much higher temperatures. The current technology will not generate other elements. And Gold etc are not created in the sun via fusion. they are generated by a different process involving stellar catastrophies.
- ThomPete 4y agoIt's a different environment which is in principle possible to recreate. First step is to get basic fusion working.