• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    That’s true, but there is far more energy to gain by fusing hydrogen compared to carbon. I’m not sure how it compares to uranium though. I suspect it might be similar. (I mean, obviously in practice you wouldn’t / couldn’t actually get the energy from fusing carbon - but we can still compare hypothetically. … also, I’m sure we could get a clear answer by looking it up; but this is one of those things where thinking about it is probably more interesting than knowing the answer.)

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      Carbon and uranium are pretty comparable. Look up binding energy per nucleon.