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Is it possible to creating electricity using Gamma radiation and Carbon Nanotubes?
Can carbon nanotubes be used to produce electricity?
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While it is possible, you would need a very high-flux, non-explosive source of gamma rays, which has a net positive output of energy relative to energy you pour into the system. This can be done if and when fusion reactors are finally developed. So far, the only human-created fusion devices are thermonuclear bombs (or hydrogen bombs). Controlled fusion is still tantalizingly beyond our reach. As for carbon nanotubes, those are not a source of energy, but may end up as a useful part of fusion technology.
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Will you explain the theory of high-flux?
How do high powered lasers and electromagnetic fields create a sinkwell where fusion reactions are possible?
Sorry, those questions are beyond my expertise. The little I know is that you're trying to trap plasma, which is a bunch of charged ions, and the mag field bends their trajectories back into the confinement area.