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Old August 16th 06, 11:30 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Ethanol Powered Aircraft

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:07:03 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:
Fusion reactors use hydrogen as fuel to make helium plus energy. It is
almost impossible to "make" hydrogen, although you can liberate it from a
compound (i.e. electrolysis of water).


Exactly... Inefficient, but with since it only needs water as a fuel
and we have *plenty* of that, a bit of inefficiency might be
acceptable...