Jeff Bezos Invests $19.5 Million in General Fusion’s Nuclear Technology | Popular Science
Environment • May 2011 • Views: 1,045
That fusion of tritium and deuterium—both forms of hydrogen—into helium releases a huge burst of energy, which can be harvested into electricity. So where you’ve basically started with cheap and plentiful lithium, you end up with a massive amount of energy and harmless gas as a byproduct—no radioactive mess to clean up (or ceaselessly worry about).