[Straight Vermonter]

If this were in fact fusion we would have to keep fission reactors going just to produce heavy water.

[r9etb]

If this were in fact fusion we would have to keep fission reactors going just to produce heavy water

Sea water is approximately 0.15% deuterium. I don't know how easy it is to extract, but I think that a combination of steam+centrifuge would make it straightforward. If there's a net positive heat from whatever these guys are doing, you could have a "cold fusion" deuterium breeder reactor.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If this were in fact fusion we would have to keep fission reactors going just to produce heavy water.

I do not think that the heavy water making facility in Telemark, Norway during early WWII used a fission reactor.