Will we eventualy colonise other planets? (43)

25 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-06-30 21:20 ID:hQVuY88W

>>24
Fusion still has the same problem as before. Almost all the energy released by fusion is in forms highly destructive to the equipment used to create and sustain the reaction, which do not lend themselves to extraction of usable power.

Fission = lots of heat generated without an uncontrolled chain reaction, good for boiling water for steam to run turbines

Fusion = almost entirely hard gamma rays and relativistic neutrons, good for frying the control circuitry and making the shielding radioactive, not so good for running the turbines

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