# We have achieved 3.6 billion degrees F

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-achieved-3-6-billion-degrees-f/347634>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-achieved-3-6-billion-degrees-f/347634 "2006-03-09T03:25:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-achieved-3-6-billion-degrees-f/347634/21 "2006-03-09T19:48:52Z")

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Booker57:

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> When the first Fusion Powersphere comes on line I want to be there.

OK, but when the Quintile Crystal is used up, I call dibs on it as a souvenier.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-achieved-3-6-billion-degrees-f/347634/22 "2006-03-09T23:59:04Z")

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> [@Absolute](#):
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> What’s interesting is that, if this is true, they’ve achieved what no other nuclear fusion researcher has done yet, and that is produce a fusion reaction that produces more energy than is required to get it started.

Can you elaborate on this point for me? doesn’t every H-Bomb produce more energy than it took to get it started? 😕

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-achieved-3-6-billion-degrees-f/347634/23 "2006-03-10T00:35:19Z")

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> [@Northern Piper](#):
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> Can you elaborate on this point for me? doesn’t every H-Bomb produce more energy than it took to get it started? 😕

Exactly what I was thinking. It’s like…you strike a match and hold it to the fuse of a stick of dynamite. Small energy in - big energy out.

Could not the reaction be ‘tripping some trigger’ thereby causing the release of some kind of stored energy?

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