Nuclear fusion for flight to Mars and beyond
Would you like to travel to Mars in few days? Me to. It will be difficult to achieve it.
Calm down your optimism
When I was reading interview with Paul A. Czysz, professor emeritus of aerospace engineering, about traveling in space by 1 G (9.81 m/s²) acceleration, I bethought of one proposal what expects nuclear fusion as "propellant" for spacecraft to Mars. It would be really nice to use fusion jet to travel in our Solar system, but I think we will wait to see it many decades. We won't be able to control fusion in large machineries at least for one decade and control it in small volumes seems to be impossible now. I believe research in area of new cosmic propellants and propulsions will be successful, but ion-engine is better choice for near future than nuclear fusion. We are able to fire out particles from ion-engine at velocity of 210,000 m/s with very low thrust now and fusion is incontrollable. So 1 G traveling in space is impossible and will be impossible for whole 21st century, I think.
How did I make Nuclear fusion web
It is difficult to make a website like this? I don't think so. If you choose right tools and sources of information, it is really easy.
Graphics and HTML
I have been using mainly two powerful programs. The first is text editor PSPad. I wrote basic HTML template of sites and part of content using it. Second great software is simple vector editor Inkscape. All illustrations were drawn in it. Both PSPad a Inkscape is free software, so you can download it and use how do you like.
Sources of information
I gather information mainly from Wikipedia, but I also monitor new releases of universities studying nuclear fusion. Very helpful is news aggregator Bloglines where I can read everything in one place.
If you have any question, suggestion or if you would like to correct my texts in poor English, don't hesitate to contact me.