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The bomb or power-plant starts off without any explosives,
simply
bringing up the pressure by focused solar heating melting salt.
Ivy Mike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike
Loud noise, very far away. [8th of 7, Jul 20 2020]
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You're never going to build a field-deployable weapon that way; you'll end up with something bigger than the Ivy Mike gadget <link>. |
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As to initiating a fusion reaction for power generation, it will need a fairly big array to collect enough energy to do the job; focusing will B an issue. |
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Might be better just harvesting the energy and feeding it into a conventional fusion reactor to heat the plasma to burn point. |
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Focusing is not engineered placement, more chucking in finer local direction. |
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