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MrGate t1_j5wwt1a wrote

Reply to comment by Tree-farmer2 in Factory that uses nuclear fusion to make heavier elements by DEATH_CORNER

> m need even larger temperatures. Probably am engineering challenge.

im sure if we had long enough, say 10k years, or even 100k years to advance more, we could probably find ways to break the energy limits and highly optmize everything etc

it might not be the easiest way to get said elements. but ehh

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Tree-farmer2 t1_j5xdiny wrote

Good point.

These larger elements are created in supernovae and neutron star mergers when nuclei absorb a bunch of extra neutrons, some of which beta decay into protons, and voila you have larger elements than iron. Maybe we'll find that strategy is better than fusion for this purpose.

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