Nuclear Fusion’s Time is (Finally) Coming
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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What Is Fusion?
Fusion is the opposite process to nuclear. When you split elements into parts, that releases energy. But when w you fuse hydrogen, you make helium - and yet you release energy in that process. That's the process which the sun uses. But the sun is actually not a very good fusion reactor. Natually th the the heat output per unit volume of the sun is about the same as the heat output of the composs heap. I have a compost heap in my back garden, and in umer it does get kind of quite warm. It's warmed by the sun, and there's all these biological processes coming out of it. You couldn't even cook an egg on it.
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