Nuclear fusion

Most speculative potential applications

Types of fusion

pursuable:

• envirounmentally friendly
• low cost
• relatively small and lightweight

Magnetic enclosure

• reduction of weight
• limit for magnetic fields unclear (severe)

Inertial fusion

• macroscopic vibration damping
• neutral particle carriage acceleration
• highly symmetric enclosement (thermal and quantum mechanical uncertainty)
• low reflectivity of hydrogen - minimal isolating plasma shell thickness (severe!)
• fast cavity cleanout
• fast radiation seals

General notes

• Thermal throughput bottleneck
• self repair of thermal and radiation damage
• isotope sorting & closed loop recycling
• usage for spacecraft propulsion possible? - earth or space only?