
Do fission reactors occur naturally?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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We started it with fire. Fire maybe was the first sort of nebeouno chemical energy causing reaction that we cam yet. We've been able to engineer similar stuff happening so we can take advantage of it and power our air conditiones. I think about it as if matter is like a bunch of tiny little springs bound together, and if you find just the right way to release those springs, you can capture all that energy and use it for something else. And exactly, fire is just that there are chemical bonds stored within the carbon and the other elements,. Within wood, for example, and heat will release them in this chain reaction. That's the magic, where some energy is released
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