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Originally Posted by cosmicfish
But fusion is an exothermic reaction, that is the only power it produces - the only question is what percentage of the heat is captured for electricity and what percentage is waste heat. Regardless, if you want heat it should be trivial to vent some heat.
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If you go looking at some of the other fusion threads, there are more problems than just heat and more ways to get power than just heat. If we assume the use of the HE3+HE3 reaction, you get a great deal of power from electron capture and some additional from heat. There are also no neutron from this reaction, making shielding requirements much easier. If you use D+D or a D+T reaction, you get some very energetic neutron that would require substantial shielding. HE3 can be produced from a D+D reactor, so my world holds that there is are hidden Morrow D+D reactors along the coasts that generated a lot of power and HE3. If they still function after 150 years, there was a lot of electricity going no place other than the electrolysis cells.