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* self repair of thermal and radiation damage | * self repair of thermal and radiation damage | ||
* isotope sorting & closed loop recycling | * isotope sorting & closed loop recycling | ||
* usage for spacecraft propulsion possible? - earth or space only? | * usage for spacecraft propulsion possible? - earth or space only? | ||
Revision as of 09:56, 18 May 2014
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 thermal energy transmission
- self repair of thermal and radiation damage
- isotope sorting & closed loop recycling
- usage for spacecraft propulsion possible? - earth or space only?