[rescue] Energy

[Harri Haataja]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:59:21PM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > > Or maybe we could just shove it all on a big space barge headed
> > > > for the sun and incinerate it?
> > > Maybe another Sun, but I'd be concerned about how it might effect ours.
> > Negligible effect.  The sun is, after all, one big cuclear reactor...
> Not really, the Sun operates by fision, not fusion. Nuclear power
                                  ^^^^^^
> plants are really mislabeled, as there are many nuclear reactions
> (i.e. fusion in the sun that radiate large amounts of energy) but that
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I supposed you meant this the right way around both times. Fusion with
light elements in the sun. Cold fusion (one without a big honking ball
of flaming gas) is the impossible(?) one, hence fission of uranium is
the one in use on earth.

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