Hi Tom! :-)

 TW> Killed effectively the "Fusion" Power Generation Idea. IT had REAL
 TW> promise for producing Clean Power with Little ot NO NE of the 
 TW> Drawbacks of the "Fission" power Plants.
Not entirely true. Hard radiation produced during fusion (which gives out
all kinds of electromagnetic waves, including gamma radiation) would have
made the envisioned reactor chamber enclosures radioactive after short use.
Sure, it only produces energy in the form of light/electromagnetic waves,
but that includes dangerous wavelengths.

Take the sun as an example. Electromagnetic waves produced in the center of
the sun are believed to take years to reach the outside of the sun, with
the intense particle density and temperatures inside the sun forming a kind
of inescapable labyrinth for electromagnetic waves. The hard radiation
produced bounces to and fro inside the sun and loses energy by that, so
that the bulk of light coming from the sun falls inside the wavelengths of
infrared to ultraviolet (which includes visible light), having lost much of
its original energy.

Ciao
Pascal

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