why cant we here on earth recreate the process that is fusion,as the sun does to slowly burn?

Answer 1

We can, but not for very long, or on a useful scale.

Folks are working on it.

The answer below confuses fission with fusion.

Answer 2

Fusion takes place at extremely high temperatures: tens of millions of Kelvin. At that temperature, any container designed to hold the reactants will vaporize. The only solution would be to contain the reaction in a magnetic field (since the reactants are plasma). People are working on this, but it is an extremely difficult engineering problem. If any of the plasma ever touches a wall, the containment fails.

Answer 3

The sun requires the extreme pressures and temperatures only at its core and a vast supply of hydrogen to fuse because fusion is still rare there (else the sun would explode). These conditions are hard to duplicate and sustain on earth where 'magnetic' bottles are used to contain extremely hot plasma.

Answer 4

We can and we have. It's called the H-bomb ☺
The problem with trying to generate a sustained and controlled fusion is that the huge amounts of energy generated are difficult to carry away from the reaction center before the equipment involved is vaporized.

Doug

Answer 5

we can recreate it on earth, most of your electricity is created that way!! nuclear fusion... ring a bell? also nuclear bombs...
its the same prosses as happens in the sun, just on a much smaller scale.
and the sun does not burn slowly either... it burns a t an unimaginaly fazst fast rate, it is simply so big that it takes thousands of millenia to burn up.

Answer 6

I don't think the sun burns slowly, it's just so vast it will burn quickly for a very long time.

Answer 7

There are scientists the world over trying to solve this... Maybe as humans, we are only really good at detroying things (Fission)...

Answer 8

because it is too hot!!!!!