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Ubi bene ibi patria
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: For the most part, in my garage.
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Rest easy Flat
I cobbed this info from from the ITER website: Fusion reactors (e.g. ITER) use only a few grams of fuel at any given moment (hydrogen isotopes - deuterium & tritium) in their fusion reaction plasmas. It should be noted a fusion reaction is a few orders of magnitude more efficient than any chemical reaction.
Deuterium, a virtually inexhaustible & harmless resource can be distilled from seawater - fresh water also.
Tritium, a radioactive isotope only occurs naturally in trace quantities but can be 'bred' during a fusion reaction with lithium. Lithium is also readily extracted from seawater. This infers reserves are virtually unlimited & enough to meet our energy requirements for as long as we as a species exist here on the planet & provided we don't terminally eff things up.
The other caveat is: can we make the b**stard work.
So you're good to go Bud - but I think we both could use a hockey fix at the moment.
Cheers
JB
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