The fusion of hydrogen

The fusion of hydrogen is a radioactive reaction that releases the most energy than any other fuel or source of energy and its end products are helium-4 which is not dangerous to the atmosphere; non-radioactive, not chemically active. Just the neutrons emitted when tritium fuses with deuterium to form helium-4 but this have a very short half-life of 9seconds disintegrating to a proton and an electron which forms a hydrogen atom which may further take part in the fusion reactions. The big problem is the high repulsive force between the positively charged hydrogen nuclei. Sufficient speed of the hydrogen nuclei in collision to fuse them together is possible only at high temperatures to overcome the great repulsive force between the nuclei. We wish to reduce this excitation energy of the hydrogen nuclei to make use of this form of energy.

The electron cloud around the hydrogen nucleus makes the atom neutral. The fusion may only occur when nucleons come sufficiently close so that nuclear forces may start acting. Suppose we could overlap the electron cloud of two hydrogen atoms, they being neutral so that the nuclei fuse or the nucleons come sufficiently close to fuse without the repulsive force acting then this excitation energy will be minimized. But the electron clouds already overlap in the hydrogen molecule and the nuclei are much closer than in between atoms. Then probably in an electromagnetic field or some other kind of field the distribution of the electron cloud could make the repulsive force cancelled out so that little energy or temperature in needed to get the nucleons fused.

The whole process could be just the fusion of hydrogen. Two Hydrogen-1 nuclei fuse to deuterium; hydrogen-2, the deuterium forms a hydrogen molecule with a Hydrogen-1 (or another deuterium atom) to form a tritium; hydrogen-3 (and release a neutron). When a tritium atom finally fuses with a deuterium atom a helium-4 nucleus and a neutron is released.

The solution to this problem may then be just creating a field that could distribute the electron cloud for a huge drop in the excitation energy so that any hydrogen molecule can have its nuclei fused to a single one. The emitted neutron disintegrates to hydrogen-1 to take part further in the radioactive reactions. If the need for excitation energy is cancelled out, then the great cost that comes with holding or containing the gas is eliminated.

The source of the fuel is the large body of water

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