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Comment by jmyeet

Fusion, I hate to say it, is a pipe dream. Why? Because any fusion reactor loses a ton of energy to fast neutrons, which have the added negative of destroying the reactor. So-called aneutronic fusion (eg using He3) isn't zero neutrons. It's just fewer neutrons.

Stars don't have this problem because they're very large so there's only so far neutrons can go.

parent jmyeet 14 days ago

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