Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Slavakion
Yeah, and that's going to be the problem as long as existence is bound by the laws of thermodynamics... but this would be a virtually limitless source of energy. Where fossil fuels are starting to dwindle, deuterium is, for all intents and purposes, infinite. There's enough floating in the ocean that we wouldn't run out in the forseeable future.
|
No, that's not what I mean. Of course total energy is always going to be conserved, but I was speaking practically (i.e. ignoring internal energy). This idea requires an external power source. The amount of energy that can be extracted is much less than what needs to be put in by that external source. An H-bomb, for example, does not have this property (although it isn't controllable). The technology described here cannot be used to replace
fossil fuels/fission. That dream is still very far off.