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US annual helium production is something like ten kilotons. Fusing 1 ton of deuterium yields about 1e21 J. Total global annual energy usage is something like ha
by thfuran 3y ago
US annual helium production is something like ten kilotons. Fusing 1 ton of deuterium yields about 1e21 J. Total global annual energy usage is something like half of that. Frankly, it'd be kind of inconvenient to generate and then get rid of all the extra energy required to meaningfully augment helium supply (assuming we even had an easy way to do the fusion).
- anArbitraryOne 3y agoA few ideas for the excess energy 1)power third world countries 2)split beryllium atoms in half 3)space lasers
- marcosdumay 3y agoOk, then what you do with the other 99.999% of it?
- anArbitraryOne 3y agoWell, splitting beryllium atoms to make helium would mean a lot less is needed to begin with