Re: Fusion energy was: SNOW JOB

Roger Books wrote:

> On  6-Feb-02 at 14:04, Brian Bilderback (bbilderback@hotmail.com)
wrote:
>
> > Either way, it still means my point was valid, that a smart
high-tech force
> >  will take along hydrogen conversion equipment or have a built-in
> > conversion	capacity to prevent a loss of fuel supply.
>
> It depends, if you can use the common isotope of hydrogen then your
> equipment is a couple of electrodes and some kind of compressor
> to capture and compress the hydrogen.  You could get that anywhere
> that had a tech high enough for gasoline engines.
>
> OTH if you only fuse the deuterium isotope seperating it could be
> a bit more difficult.  AFAIK all current research on fusion is
> using deuterium.  Anyone know how you seperate deuterium from
> normal hydrogen?
>

If you have hydrogen gas, you can use gaseous centrifuges.  Compared to
isotopic
seperation of uranium hexaflouride (mass differs by three parts four
hundred),
seperating deuterium from hydrogen (with a mass ratio of three to two,
maybe four