• deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Once you use up all the heavy elements by fission you just put the newly created light elements into fusion reactors and get the originals back

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          20 hours ago

          Ok, good. My humour detector must need a recharge.

          To get the originals mater back would be a violation, but you’d get something out. Just less and less each time round. That’s what I thought you were suggesting. Even that is fantasy for now.

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            20 hours ago

            I don’t believe in the /s.

            Aside from conservation of energy being violated, I don’t think there’s enough hydrogen produced from fission to do it either. I’m no physicist but I don’t think fusion of iodine, cesium, strontium, krypton etc is viable, I think it’s gotta be the really low weight stuff like hydrogen and helium.