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To: M Kehoe
Isn't it expensive and energy intensive to make H3O?

You're thinking of helium-3. Yes, you need to breed it in a reactor or mine the moon. Deuterium can be extracted from water by physical or chemical processes that are relatively cheap. ($28 a pound).

57 posted on 01/15/2005 1:45:12 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
Deuterium can be extracted from water by physical or chemical processes that are relatively cheap. ($28 a pound).

Where did you get this value. The price of heavy water is several times this and after you break out the Deuterium you then have to multiply it by 4 and add the energy costs. That would make it about $1000 per pound?

65 posted on 01/15/2005 3:47:18 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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