alt Hacker NewsIs "producing net energy" really what’s physically happening here, or is it a shortcut for "extracting pre-existing matter/energy in a form we can canalize?
Is "producing net energy" really what’s physically happening here, or is it a shortcut for "extracting pre-existing matter/energy in a form we can canalize?
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed (matter is energy)
When I say producing net energy I mean getting out more useful energy than we put in.
At the lowest level, the energy we received comes from the fact that the two nuclei fused have a lower energy state than they had individually and the remaining energy causes heat via the emission of neutrons