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To: Crazieman
However it requires more energy to initiate than Deut+Deut fusion.

And we have to find the He-3. Not quite as abundant as H-2, is it?

22 posted on 04/27/2005 12:46:42 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: inquest

Correct.

Except on the moon. Thats why people like to point to it for He3 mining. However its uneconomical since we have no way of producing a fusion effect without putting more energy into it - yet.


23 posted on 04/27/2005 12:49:00 PM PDT by Crazieman (If Con is the opposite of Pro, what is the opposite of Progress?)
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To: inquest
He3+He3 fusion results in no free neutrons (Seen as the holy-holy grail of fusion) However it requires more energy to initiate than Deut+Deut fusion.

And we have to find the He-3. Not quite as abundant as H-2, is it?

He-3 is rarer than hen's teeth! He itself is not that abundant, but He-3 constitutes only 0.00013% of all He.

H, of course is very abundant and H2, though rare, amounts to 0.015% of all H. That makes its relative isotopic fraction 3 orders of magnitude greater than He-3.

Above info is from my old (40+ years) chart of the nuclides, but I doubt the data have changed significantly.

53 posted on 04/27/2005 3:56:42 PM PDT by IonImplantGuru (Give me heaven... or a 637!)
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