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Juho S February 28, 2010 12:05 4 Thumb-ups
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Mini star

Nazi ships could use non-fictinal Helium-3 as fuel. Non-fictinal Helium-3 is rare on Earth but it's thought to be greater in abundance on the Moon. Moon Nazis could

process moon regolith to make Helium-3. Helium-3 can be used as fuel on fusion reactor. Only down side is that fusin Helium-3 with itself or even with Deuterium requires very high temperatures.

Moon Nazis overcame this problem, but those shorcuts made inherently safe fusion reactor prone to hyper-accelerated chain reaction with catastrophic consequences. In normal operation reactor is perfectly safe, but with sufficient combat damage reactor could accelerate out of control. This would result reactor to become kind of a mini star.

It would melt the ship to form "star's" outer somewhat cooler surface:
Resuling fire ball like these but in smaller scale:

When "star" has consumed it's fuel and fusion reaction is dying, it first lose it's outer surface like giant solar flares:



Then collapsing into intsel and finally exploding:


After explosion all that remains is some gasses in near ships posiotion.
Result:

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Timo Vuorensola March 04, 2010 10:46 Flag

Very good pondering there, and thanks also to Lee Crystal for the link to the documentary - a very good thoughts here!

Lee Crystal February 28, 2010 16:04 Flag

I'll just have to go change that right now.... LOL

Seriously though this is still something they could play with. Maybe just do some more research?

Still it's not a bad idea.

Juho S February 28, 2010 15:56 Flag

Lee Crystal: At least all-knowing wikipedia says that Helium-3 Deuterium fusion requires much higher temperature than Deuterium Tritium Fusion and Helium-3 Helium-3 fusion requires even higher temperatures.

Juho S February 28, 2010 15:47 Flag

Kris S: Yep, YouTube has many "animation" as hilarious as that one. Had fun going through them : )

Kris S. February 28, 2010 15:39 Flag

I love that first animation, "exploding planet"... :)

Lee Crystal February 28, 2010 15:31 Flag

I thought H3 did not require as high a temperature. I'm sure I saw a program about reactor that could use H3?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2xChmfLlMo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eem7hDeREsY

More;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94rEqHP9dOQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pesHbbpNRjE