< p >取代20%或更多的普通水的身体与重水结果是有毒的(库什纳1999)。再一次,高剂量的维生素是有毒的,但维生素对人的生命来说是必不可少的。可以在小剂量氘是必不可少的生活吗?这正是Somlyai等人认为在他们的论文中(Somlyai 1993)。< / p > < p >然而,有点过早开始大喊“氘峰值。”We don't even know if ITER will prove to be successful, let alone point the way to commercially successful fusion. Even if it does prove to be successful, the deuterium consumption rate will be tiny. By the time our children's children's ... children would have to shout peak deuterium, we'll have gone on to even bigger and better things (if humanity lives that long).
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Somlyai, et al (1993), "Naturally occurring deuterium is essential for the normal growth rate of cells," FEBS letters, 317.1:1-4.