In reply to Jürg Wyttenbach's message of Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:30:43 +0200: Hi, [snip] >The problem with the Holmlid way of fusion > >9H --> 2 4-He + K^o ,K^+ is, it wastes almost all fusion energy (53MeV) >in kinetic particles.
It need not be a waste, if you have an absorber that is large enough to convert most of the kinetic energy into heat. The material of the absorber can be something cheap, like water. That has the advantage that it immediately produces steam which can drive a turbine. >Muon production rate is low. Further muon >catalyzed fusion is very dirty and mostly produces kinetic neutrons like >in hot fusion. If one could harvest the energy of Kaons,Pions then the >picture would look different. If the muons are absorbed in normal water, then the most likely fusion reaction would be H+D -> He3. Although the muons will also knock a few neutrons off Oxygen which will then be absorbed by either H or O16 resulting in either D or O17. The D is useful, and the O17 is harmless. The O15 left behind will decay to N15 which is also harmless. In fact, even the faster neutrons from the D-D or D-T reactions would be relatively harmless if absorbed in water, for the same reasons. [snip]
