I can't decide whether this is way out and wacky or a potentially important development. The cost effectiveness must be an issue and the fact that the technology doesn't yet exist must be another point against it but as the man says:
'Right now we are not thinking ahead enough. Some of us are. But then the people who make the decisions and put money on the projects are not. They think only about the next elections'.
On the other hand one of the commenters says:
'All of this is academic. To fuse D and He3, you'd need considerably higher temperatures than to fuse deuterium and tritium (twice as much charge on the He3 nucleus). If we can't get breakeven with D T, no amount of He3 fuel is going to give us a fusion-based economy'
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