On 11/02/2011 12:32, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I had a really good porcine aviation pipe dream.

The fusion combustion engine.

ALL the problems with fusion are containment. You can start it but you
can't hold it.

So why bother?

Take a really classy internal combustion engine, instead of air it sucks
in deuterium. It compresses it and instead of a spark plug you have a
laser or summat. BANG. tiny thermonuclear explosion pushes the piston
down... out comes helium exhaust to drive a turbocharger..

V8 fusion powered Jaguar..in yer dreams TNP.. :-)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia...inement_fusion

Andy