Why is it difficult to develop a fusion reactor for power generation?
The hard thing about fusion is, that there is currently no method available, where the released energy of fusioning to atoms exceeds the energy used to fusion them. In simpler terms: If you have to invest more power into fusioning two atoms than you would receive by the fusioning, you are simply losing energy. Scientists have come a great deal near the solution, but it’s still not resolved. As it seems, they will have to make use of the so called “tunneling effect”. That’s the effect that causes our sun to perform fusion in the first place. You have to consider that the sun with ist enormous mass is still too small to perform a fusion reaction. It is because of the tunnelung effect that it is able to perform the impossible fact of atom fusion.
