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From: john@anasazi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.sci
Subject: Re: Ingition!
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Date: Sat, 10-May-86 09:36:30 EDT
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Reply-To: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
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>>     It is already known that this can be thermodynamically triggered, If 
>>   this reaction is self sustaining, ( i.e. large cross-section) then
>>   we could be in lots of trouble.  It should give Sol some competition, at
>>   least in this planetery system.
>
>I also think you seriously underestimate how puny the Earth is in
>relation to the Sun.  "The solar system consists of the Sun, Jupiter,
>and assorted debris".
>-- 
I think the key here is thermodynamics. The "temperature" required for
fusion must be maintained as the reaction continues. This requires that
the energy release must be large enough to sufficiently heat the material
in a continually growing sphere. They worried about this problem before
the first H-bomb was set off, and it proved groundless. I believe it was
later shown to be orders of magnitude away from possible.
-- 
John Moore (NJ7E/XE1HDO)
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