The Pros and Cons of Nuclear Power

[sid_galt]

I have a question about inertial fusion. I read an article on it on worldenergy.org which said that most of the kinetic energy of the d-t gas being compressed will be converted to internal energy leaving only the innermost part to fuse.

How will the kinetic energy be converted to internal energy. Could anyone elaborate?

Thank you

 

[hitssquad]

Thermochemical vs electrolytic hydrogen-reduction processes

One could use nuclear power plants to cleanly make the energy to electrolyze the hydrogen

Wouldn't it make more sense to reduce water to hydrogen thermochemically?
http://www.greatchange.org/bb-thermochemical_hydrogen.html

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Thermochemical decomposition of water results in hydrogen and oxygen through a process that allows an endothermic reaction to be induced at high temperatures and an exothermic reaction at low temperatures. The high temperature reactors, such as HTTR, are fitted as the source of high temperatures.
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