Quote from: wetbanana on July 10, 2010, 01:14:41 AM
probably for He3 research
We don't have a D+T reactor working. We are still at least a couple of decades from that result. He3+D requires confinement conditions much more extreme than D+T so expect at least 50 years of development before having a He3+D demonstrator. As last consideration, He3 is not the path for a a-neutronic reaction because, every time you have the conditions for fusion, the reaction D+D -> T + p can take place, creating the material for the next step D+T -> He4 + n. The simplest a-neutronic reaction is B + p. For further reference, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion).
He3 mining is the most useless task one could imagine (considering also the enormous amount of material to process, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3)).
I hope to have put a wooden spike into He3 heart >:(.
Quote from: latego on July 10, 2010, 03:40:35 PMQuote from: wetbanana on July 10, 2010, 01:14:41 AM
probably for He3 research
We don't have a D+T reactor working. We are still at least a couple of decades from that result. He3+D requires confinement conditions much more extreme than D+T so expect at least 50 years of development before having a He3+D demonstrator. As last consideration, He3 is not the path for a a-neutronic reaction because, every time you have the conditions for fusion, the reaction D+D -> T + p can take place, creating the material for the next step D+T -> He4 + n. The simplest a-neutronic reaction is B + p. For further reference, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion).
He3 mining is the most useless task one could imagine (considering also the enormous amount of material to process, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3)).
I hope to have put a wooden spike into He3 heart >:(.
But please don't tell that to the Obama administration. Seeing how they handle the Gulf oil spill already tells me that they are as clueless as the previous Bush administration.