• nadiaraven@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m so sorry, but you don’t split (fission) helium to get energy. You combine (fusion) helium to get energy. You split something heavy like uranium to get energy.

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        7 months ago

        Perhaps I want clear. If you split helium, you lose energy. You have to go above iron if want to release energy from fission (mostly).

      • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 months ago

        But a guillotine doesn’t deliver more energy that a nuclear explosion. Given the endothermic nature of splitting helium it would have do the splitting and the exploding.