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The majority of the energy released will be heat, relatively few high energy photons are released so ‘solar’ isn’t a viable option and your suggestion about a particle accelerator just doesn’t make any sense.
Boiling water is literally the best way to capture the energy released.
And to be clear, it's harnessing the energy released by state changes in materials.
Water is just the most abundant, cleanest, and most effective material to state change and harness.
I'm not disputing what the current gold standard is, I'm looking for theoretical possibilities.
When you say heat, in fusion, most of the energy would be a neutron moving really fast, right? It sucks that it doesn't have a charge because then it would be really easy, but there's options here if we get creative.
Maybe there's some sort of material yet to be invented that can be slapped by a neutron and "deformed" in a way that causes electrons to shift/make holes and exploit that to make electricity.
And that free neutron will eventually decay into a proton and electron, and those have a charge, so if we keep them going around a loop until that happens perhaps we could harness it.