This thread is about the possibility of making a Carbon Fusion Reactor, link = http://www.scienceforums.com/topic/30881-the-thorium-cycle-and-carbon-fusion/ What do you think about this? Opinions welcomed...
1) Temperatures for carbon fusion are effectively unreachable in any terrestrial reactor. We can barely get to D-T fusion temperatures/pressures. 2) Shielding will be incredibly difficult. At those temperatures the plasma would be radiating in the hard X-ray band.