        Comments     Threshold   RE: Sod Global Warming.. By
EidolWays on 4/8/2008 1:51:21 PM , Rating: 2 Unless I'm
completely off-base, there's no need to worry.  A star's "need
to feed" is largely limited to hydrogen. The process of fusion
consumes two isotopes of hydrogen and releases helium. Thus the
only thing a star is going to consume is that hydrogen. The
exception is when the star is exceptionally massive and its core
can reach the temperatures needed to fuse heavier elements. Only
then do stars begin burning the heavier elements that remain
within them when all hydrogen is exhausted (this is actually the
source of many of the heavier elements in our universe). Any
fusion reaction created on a minute scale in the lab is not
going to involve nearly enough mass for that kind of reaction.
Mind, supernovas do involve the "burning" of those heavier
elements, but in this case I'd imagine they'll be providing the
extra energy needed to get there using the same laser they use
to start the fusion reaction.