The fusion energy is theoretical level. The fusion systems are still at the laboratory level. That means there are many problems to overcome before commercial fusion systems. The fusion fuel can be produced from heavy water. The system bombs deuterium with neutrons. Or it can shoot deuterium or some other atoms against each other.
That can create neutron stripping, which transforms deuterium into tritium, and then the laser systems can increase the dividing speed of tritium. In that process, tritium transforms into Heluim-3 (3^He). If the system wants to produce Helium-3 for experimental or pulsed plasma rocket engines, that thing doesn't require that the Helium-3 production must be economical.
Hydrogen's heavy isotopes deuterium and tritium are the most promising fusion fuels. The problem is where the system can produce tritium or Helium3 for the fusion fuel. The 100 million K temperature allows two Heium-3 atoms can create fusion. There is the possibility to produce Hellium-3 from tritium. The process is well-known. Their system bombs deuterium using neutrons. Then the next thing that the researchers must solve is, how to make tritium divide faster.
The tritium has 12,3 years of half-time. It's possible to make that divide time shorter by stressing tritium with lasers, which increases its energy level and a higher energy level makes it divide faster. This process requires energy. And being successful the use of energy in that process must be lower than fusion produces.
Deuterium-tritium fusion requires a 50 million kelvin (K) temperature. But shooting deuterium and tritium ions and anions against each other can decrease the needed temperature. In those cases, even 25 million K is the cold fusion. In those accelerator-based systems, impact speed compensates for the temperature.
In some models, the system creates two donut-shaped plasma rings. Then it shoots those plasma rings together. In some other models, the system pulls (as an example) deuterium ions and tritium anions from the opposite side of the reactor. Then high-power laser accelerates and shoots those particles together.
There is one version of how to produce Helium-3 on Earth. The system can use deuterium as the source and then bomb the tritium using neutrons. After that, the system can use lasers to divide tritium. And that thing should increase the tritium transformation into Helium-3. This kind of system can make the new types of fusion reactors possible. In some models, the fusion system could turn deuterium deuterium and tritium atoms into ions and anions.
Those ions and anions can be shot through the particle accelerators, and the high-speed impacts can make the "cold fusion possible". One of the most promising fusion materials is Helium-3, an extremely rare isotope on Earth. If the mass production of the synthetic Heium-3 using tritium is possible, that can revolutionize energy production. And that thing can also make it possible to create new airships. The high price of Helium is the thing that limits the development of new airships that could offer silent and safe transportation methods.
https://explainingthefuture.com/helium3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
https://interestingengineering.com/science/neutron-stripping-output-nuclear-fusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
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