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To: editor-surveyor
You need to admit that you don’t understand what is being discussed. A hydrogen explosion has no relation whatsoever to any nuclear reaction.

Whatever. However, you are ducking the question. Please explain why a nuclear reaction is 100% efficient and a hydrogen explosion is not.

167 posted on 08/01/2008 12:27:11 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater
"Please explain why a nuclear reaction is 100% efficient and a hydrogen explosion is not."

A nuclear bomb does not leave unconverted fuel behind; whether fission, or fusion, the reaction always completes.

With burning, the question of efficiency is dependent on the design of the combustion chamber, and the compression ratio. In a diesel engine, due to the high compression ratio, the vast majority of the fuel is burned in the chamber, as opposed to a gasoline or hydrogen fueled engine, where a significant portion of the reaction takes place in the exhaust system, where it cannot impart any energy to the head of the piston, and thus the efficiency is reduced.

185 posted on 08/01/2008 12:57:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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