Reply To: A new way of generating electricity

[Augustine]

QuantumDot wrote: Here is a file from MIT on the expected price of helium3 taken from the moon or from nuclear decay. but from what i say they both need a temperature of about 100keV so boron11 should be cheaper, but at an expected energy price of about 7 dollars a gallon for the equivalent energy its better then gas but not boron.

ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Nuclear…/22…2006/…/helium3_fusion.pdf

the file is too large for me to attach

Neptune has helium 3 in abundance. I think that any fusion fuel that leads to a reactor with Q > 1 will win. If it is fusion then aneutronic that is nice but I think that human society can live with neutrons being produced.

Q > 1 and preferable Q > 3 (to give the engineers room to be lazy and to save money) is all that really matters. If you can demonstrate Q > 1 and provide the theoretical foundation then you have done something nobody else has done and the whole world will notice.