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minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoIf we put it like that, every other energy source on earth begins that way and adds at least one conversion step. … except for fusion of course.
minus-squareRivalarrival@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoExactly. Nuclear plants are probably the least efficient, because they required all that fusion energy inside earlier stars to build hydrogen into uranium, and we can only extract a tiny portion of that trapped fusion energy through fission.
If we put it like that, every other energy source on earth begins that way and adds at least one conversion step.
… except for fusion of course.
Exactly.
Nuclear plants are probably the least efficient, because they required all that fusion energy inside earlier stars to build hydrogen into uranium, and we can only extract a tiny portion of that trapped fusion energy through fission.