Re: Fusion energy was: SNOW JOB

KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

(snippage)

> If you have a fusion reactor, it will run for a looooooooong time on
small
> amounts of hydrogen. Even if you run out of hydrogen eventually, you
would
> use part of the reactors output to split H2O to pure hydrogen rather
than
> use a CFE to produce the hydrogen. In fact, you would get more energy
by
> splitting the hygdrogen off the biodiesel and feeding the fusion plant
with
> that than by burning the biodiesel.
>
> Greetings
> Karl Heinz

Just one question...(no I am not questioning anyone's logic here..)

I love the idea of fusion also.  But I have a hard time getting any info
that
relates to games...ie: how long will the fuel last, how big a typical
reactor
would be, ect...

At our current stage of fusion development, how did they (the science
boys)
figure a little hydrogen will go a long way?

In the RPG GURPS Space, they include a fusion reactor for players ships,
which
"takes no fuel...internal fuel supply lasts 200 years."  When I read
this, I
thought Steve Jackson had blown a gasket...didn't seem real. After
reading
Traveller, where the smallest fusion reactor takes 20 tons (liquid)
hydrogen
fuel to move a 100 ton ship (displacement) 1 parsec in a week...

I quess my question is this: Is this a real possibility?  No foolin?

If so, that would be super cool!  8-D

Donald Hosford