It is true that burning hydrogen by combining it with oxygen would not
obscure neutrinos. It is true that burning hydrogen by fusion would.
Burning hydrogen and making water, in space, *might* be possible *if*
oxygen is present in enough quantities but it is unlikely since both the
hydrogen and the oxygen would be rapidly expanding and very quickly drop
to a density too low to sustain the reactions. Fusing hydrogen would be
impossible, insufficient denisty to sustain the needed temps and pressures
even for deuterium fusion. If it were possible then everytime we did a
underwater nuclear explosion, we would have ignighted the oceans and
destroyed the world!
Just my two cents worth.
T.L.Hayes | [email removed]
MIT/Lincoln Laboratory | - or -
Lexington, MA | [email removed]
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