h a l f b a k e r yFaster than a stationary bullet.
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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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Seems to me if you could perfect solar collectors on that scale
(and energy storage in the form of molten salt), then any
other kind of power plant would be redundant. |
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Focusing is not engineered placement, more chucking in finer local direction. |
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