Talk:Nuclear fusion
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Mimicking the sun's pressure waves & central region of fusion
[edit]an old idea which was mechanically impossible...
Pressure waves by trembling shields which focus on a central ring of the fusion torus have been suggested. The shields should not touch somewhere, but should be held in place magnetically. It is extremely hard not to break the shileds while they tremble hard enough. A spherical (non-toroid) chamber with two poles (looping input and output for the gasses) has been proposed. A spherical chamber will have a more concentrated pressure center.
- Some pressure waves are created without moving shields, simply with variation of the intensity of the magnets. a. It is very hard to impart the desired force on the pressure waves, b. Achieving strong enough pressure waves that make a difference, usually costumes way more energy than what we extract. (The pressure waves should be focused, not turbulent and arbitrary.)
- note: correct harmonics DO MATTER!!! If you don't fine-tune the oscillations, you burn energy and money.
Energy released in DT fusion
[edit]One should be careful about using Wikipedia for precise numbers. But since the DT reaction is of the highest current interest, it should be correct. Working out the relativistic mechanics (it's not hard), and using current numbers, the energy released in DT fusion is 17.589 MeV, split 3.561 going to He4 and 14.028 going to the neutron. The numbers on this page were slightly off so I fixed them. If one rounds to a single decimal place, this gives "17.6 = 3.6 + 14.0" which is not the culturally common "17.6 = 3.5 + 14.1". Not like it changes anything, and people doing real work are hopefully using accurate numbers. Dstrozzi (talk) 15:26, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
neutron fusion
[edit]this is an under represented aspect of this page and instead of deletion people should improve it Neutron6b (talk) 17:09, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
- If you can post sources which talk about this I or others can read them and summarize them. The problem with the reverted edits were that the sources never talked about n-n fusion in the way the Wikipedia added text did. See: WP:NOR and WP:SYNTH. ---Avatar317(talk) 23:55, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
neutron-neutron fusion
[edit]dont remove expand ~2025-33130-86 (talk) 13:12, 13 November 2025 (UTC)