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Article #7430*** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
From: Richard Schroeppel
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:14
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:14
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Since fusing protons is so hard, why not use deuterons? They fuse at a lower temperature, and the reaction only requires regrouping the nucleons, rather than invoking the weak force to transmute p->n. The Earth's d/p ratio is ~.0001. Perhaps the ramscoop collector could selectively enrich d, by selecting for atoms having a magnetic moment. Rich Schroeppel rcs@cs.arizona.edu
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