Nuclear Fusion
In Our Time: Science
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How to Generate Electricity From a Fusion Reaction
Fusion as Steve's described it in the method with magnets and there are other methods of doing it as well does work. The problem is that at the moment we can't sustain it for long enough to get more energy out than we put in. So where the electricity would come from is you simply would have outside your reactor that neutron be slowed down in some blanket of liquid metal or something. In the end it all comes down to the good old steam turbine.
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