Carbon Fusion Review

[Vmedvil]

This thread is about the possibility of making a Carbon Fusion Reactor, link = http://www.scienceforums.com/topic/30881-the-thorium-cycle-and-carbon-fusion/

What do you think about this? Opinions welcomed...

 

[billvon]

What do you think about this? Opinions welcomed...

1) Temperatures for carbon fusion are effectively unreachable in any terrestrial reactor. We can barely get to D-T fusion temperatures/pressures.
2) Shielding will be incredibly difficult. At those temperatures the plasma would be radiating in the hard X-ray band.

 

[Vmedvil]

1) Temperatures for carbon fusion are effectively unreachable in any terrestrial reactor. We can barely get to D-T fusion temperatures/pressures.
2) Shielding will be incredibly difficult. At those temperatures the plasma would be radiating in the hard X-ray band.

Noted, anything else?

 

[Bells]

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