Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "Fusion Power Explained! | Dr. Dennis Whyte | EP 424" video.

  1. ⁠ @fahimp3 gravity isn’t relativity weak. It’s weak af. A single gram of fully ionized liquid hydrogen in the core of the sun would have enough electrostatic energy to gravitationallly unbind the sun (that means blow it up). One gram.
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  2.  @captainLoknar yeah, but the PP chain in stars is a weak process (hence the neutrinos). DD and DT are strong force, so are a literal gazillion times faster. When they went with harnessing the power of the sun, they opened it up to exactly your criticism.
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  3. It’s been done
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