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4. 2 questions naturally follow...
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 04:07 PM
Aug 2015

1) 10 million C is nice, but did fusion occur. It is pressure plus temperature that leads to fusion. The particles emerging out of the CERN collider are at a much greater temperature than 10 million C, but they are so far apart from each other (low pressure) that there is negligible fusion.
2) If fusion did occur, how much energy did it produce? And how much energy was consumed in producing that energy? It is the difference that is important.

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