Monday, January 16, 2006

atom smasher fusion

Why not use particle accelerator technology to drive fusion: e.g., beams of highly accelerated protons into a hydrogen target, or beams in opposite directions? Seems simple, but more importantly, a mature, well-understood technology.

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