From: Ken Clements (Ken@Innovation-On-Demand.com)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 11:46:52 MDT
Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> Nono, though you could enrichen deuterium in situ, at least in
> principle, tritium is not plentiful, you have to breed it from lithium
> (9?) using massive amounts of neutrons, and you'll need a lot of juice
> to assemble a magnetic flux compression generator, plus a ton or so of
> high explosives from the thin air and a handful of dirt.
Tritium is not necessary, it just lowers the initial pressure/temp requirement.
The technique I have in mind does not use magnetic compression either.
-Ken
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