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To: Red Badger

I am not a physicist, I just play one on TV. Ok, I get that the energy released is greater than the energy input. However, the energy released, which I assume is heat, must be converted to electrical energy. To make electricity from heat a steam turbine is used. This type energy transfer mechanics is only 37% efficient. So unless the energy output is well over 3:1, fusion energy is still a long ways away.


27 posted on 10/08/2013 8:46:32 AM PDT by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: 11th Commandment

Not to mention other systemic losses due to resistance, friction, taxes and globull warming.................


28 posted on 10/08/2013 8:50:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
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