With fusion in the news often, I was wondering what makes it special as opposed to simply burning hydrogen with oxygen like a fuel cell does?
Doesn’t both require the uneconomical electrolysis to source the hydrogen in the first place?
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The fuel for fusion reactors is actually harder to get ahold of than for fuel cells because it requires special types of hydrogen and helium. What makes fusion so desirable is that nuclear reactions release far more energy than chemical ones. All that energy is more than enough to make up for the extra cost of fuel.
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