[rescue] Energy

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Harri Haataja wrote:

> 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.
> 

Yeah, you are right.... brain fart I guess. Fusion <- H (good), Fision
-> U (bad). The only time we achieve fussion on earth is through a big
honking H-bomb. But I gues that is not practical :-)