Timeline for How much of the energy from 1 megaton H Bomb explosion could we capture to do useful work?
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| Feb 25, 2012 at 1:46 | comment | added | Ron Maimon | @mmc: I was thinking of using wet-sand in the cavity, not water, and having a much bigger cavity for multi-megaton explosions. The issue, I thought, would be heat-containment--- so that you don't waste most of the heat. But the stuff in the article is good enough for fusion power today, if the security factors could be overcome. | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 21:24 | comment | added | mmc | @dmckee There was a proposal in the '70s to generate electricity from ~100 kT explosions in underground cavities (the yields were limited by cavity stability considerations). | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 20:25 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Simply computing the energy generated does not address the questions. As it stands there is not even a theoretical way to hardness the power of a fusion explosion on that scale. | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 17:21 | comment | added | Matt Luckham | Love this answer! Let's build it! | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 16:52 | vote | accept | Matt Luckham | ||
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| Feb 24, 2012 at 16:47 | history | answered | Energy Engineer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |