Do we know of a means by which artificial nuclear fusion could be used to mimic stellar carbon-12 production?

BreadstickNinja, 3 months ago

You’d be talking about replicating the triple-alpha process in a fusion reactor, and it’s a process that takes places at much higher temperatures and pressures than other stellar nucleosynthetic reactions. Assuming you could get the conditions right it may be theoretically possible, but it’s probably much further off than even viable deuterium-tritium fusion.