When I say “fake fireplace”, I mean something like those structures fueled by fossil methane that produce flame and heat but obviously don’t burn actual wood

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    8 months ago

    True, but I was specifically talking about nuclear fusion, which would entail helium/hydrogen plasma rather than fissionable material.

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        8 months ago

        It’d heat up the room, though. And the next couple of rooms. Or houses.

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        8 months ago

        No, that still probably wouldn’t work out, as the other comments have pointed out. Just clarifying that the dangerous aspects of what I asked wouldn’t involve uranium in particular.