deuterium is abundant in the philippine sea!?

Question

is it possible that one day oil will be obsolete and this new clean source of energy will be used globally?

Answer 1

Abundance is a relative concept here, but there's enough deuterium in the oceans to fuel a fusion-powered economy for a long time. But even in the most deuterium-rich layers of the ocean it's only a fraction of a percent of the total hydrogen, so extraction will take some effort.

Two things to keep in mind about fusion power are that 1) we haven't figured out how to do it yet, and 2) smog-free as it may be, it does produce a lot of gamma rays and high-energy neutrons.

Answer 2

As stated above deuterium is quite common in all oceans. Using it for fusion is certainly possible but so far the most advanced fusion reactor has only maintained fusion for a few seconds. And it still consumes alot more energy than it generates. New reactors are planned that just might yield break even, meaning it at least generates as much energy as it consumes, but the cost will be enormous. So enormous no single nation can built on its own. It will take international cooperation but hten comes the decision of where to build. Every nation wants it but no one wants to pay for it... Hopefully it will be built and be so successful that its offspring can be used to produced (relatively) clean electricity at a commercial price. And virtually forever.
Fusion means that hydrogen isotopes is fused to form helium. Which mean hydrogen, the main component in water, is consumed in a way that it is permanently gone. But there is so much hydrogen in the oceans that even if we were to get all our energy needs from fusion in the not too distant future, by the time we have consumed enough hydrogen to make a measurable dent in our oceans, it will be so far off into the future that we will have the technology to extract deuterium directly out of the atmosphere of Jupiter...

Answer 3

Maybe. Billions are being spent trying to develop a working fusion reactor that would use deuterium. If one can be made, it could replace all coal, oil and gas fired electricity generating plants.

Answer 4

Deuterium is adundant in every sea and ocean. Approximately 1 in every 6500 water molecules contains deuterium. Considering the amount of water on Earth then estimates say our deuterium reserves should last a couple of millennia.

Look up these sites to see how its hoped to be used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JET
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
and ...
http://www.jet.efda.org/
http://www.iter.org/

Answer 5

Deuterium is very plentiful and it's not limited like oil is. All we need to do is perfect fusion which may happen in another few decades and we'll be all set.