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Fusion megaproject confirms 5-year delay, trims costs
Science ^ | June 16, 2016 | Daniel Clery

Posted on 06/18/2016 5:58:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 06/18/2016 5:58:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Sun seems to do it way easier.


2 posted on 06/18/2016 6:03:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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4 billion dollars? What is that, one and a half F-35s?


3 posted on 06/18/2016 6:12:25 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For four decades, I’ve been hearing that fusion power is just 15 years away. I stopped believing that long ago, just like I stopped believing that democrats are misguided but mean well.


4 posted on 06/18/2016 6:15:07 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

4-5 billion ain’t nothing compared to the money spent pacifying the migrant filth from islam invading the EU.

Just do it and tell the islam filth to die young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJZYdlBwgCU&index=8&list=PL7YSGatJathvcOIBtgqKQkPN5P_ZLQ_Zy


5 posted on 06/18/2016 6:17:09 PM PDT by soycd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I was an undergraduate physics student 45 years ago (1967 to 1971), the claim was controlled nuclear fusion would provide cheap and abundant energy after some pretty high R&D and then construction costs by 1980 or about ten years into the future. I scoffed at those predictions based upon how little we really knew about how to control nuclear fusion.

Today we are again being told that controlled nuclear fusion will provide cheap and abundant energy after some even more hefty R&D and then construction costs in 2030 or about 15 years into the future. (Note that “first plasma” in 2025 is not the same as first production of useable energy.)

I scoff at these predictions because we really do not know nearly enough about how to control nuclear fusion in such a way as to produce useable energy.

This article does seem to get one thing right—this is a huge construction project which will benefit the construction trades. I doubt I will live long enough to see this facility produce the amount of energy consumed to build it.

There is a Dairy Queen commercial here in Texas where scientists ponder how to put fudge into a center of a Blizzard (one of their ice cream products). They ponder all sort of ways to do it. A Dairy Queen employee announces she just put the fudge into the ice cream machine and that put the fudge into the Blizzard. The people in the white coats all hold up a Dairy Queen cup and shout, “Science!”

Beware of people willing to shout, “Science!” for several tens of billions of dollars. Especially when those people are the same people pushing pseudo-scientific policies.


6 posted on 06/18/2016 6:20:09 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Pollster1

I’m building a jazz fusion reactor. I’ll call it Three Miles Davis Island.


7 posted on 06/18/2016 6:30:54 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will guess that international R&D on fusion reactors has gone well past $100 billion.

Since I’m a lifelong supporter of basic research in physics, I’m reluctant to say we should end it.

But, man, that is a lot of money, plus 60 years of research, for no major commercial applications!


8 posted on 06/18/2016 6:48:53 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How is that E-Cat doing?


9 posted on 06/18/2016 6:55:39 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: Larry Lucido

Booo!!


10 posted on 06/18/2016 6:59:15 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Pollster1

Fusion power research sustains thousands of scientists with excellent wages. keep the money coming....


11 posted on 06/18/2016 7:07:52 PM PDT by entropy12 (When you vote, you are actually voting for the candidate's rich donors!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

True words


12 posted on 06/18/2016 7:32:21 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Sun in a Bottle:
The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking

by Charles Seife


13 posted on 06/18/2016 7:58:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: entropy12
Fusion power research sustains thousands of scientists with excellent wages. keep the money coming

Yeah. Similar to global warming which is the perfect storm for liberals: scientists get the research money and Democrats get to control everything.

14 posted on 06/18/2016 8:36:25 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Pollster1

I first read about it in a old used book at my school’s library as a child. 20 years later...still expensive mostly-vaporware that hasn’t lit a lightbulb. It truly hurts to say this, especially since we’ve thrown away our space program and most ‘advances’ are merely for grown-up toys, but fusion is a pipe dream.

DRILL FOR OIL OR EAT DIRT!


15 posted on 06/18/2016 9:02:44 PM PDT by Laser_Ray (Another nifty idea)
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To: Lx
How is that E-Cat doing?

Don't start with me!

16 posted on 06/18/2016 9:18:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Paladin2
To achieve that requires heating two hydrogen isotopes—deuterium (D) and tritium (T)—to temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius.

100 million degrees Celsius is supernova conditions. The sun's internal temperature maxes out at 15 million Celsius. Who wants to be anywhere near a government affirmative action designed supernova?

17 posted on 06/18/2016 9:48:57 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Retro Fission Jazz. Very cool.


18 posted on 06/18/2016 10:33:31 PM PDT by Noumenon ("Objects in history may be closer than they appear")
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I understand that they are taking deposits on orders for delivery in 2020 2026 2031 2037 2042 2048 2051 20...............
19 posted on 06/18/2016 10:37:56 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer; 2ndDivisionVet; Lx
From Wikipedia page for E-Cat:

In January 2014 a newly formed company, Industrial Heat LLC, announced that it had acquired rights to Rossi's E-Cat technology. In April 2016, Rossi filed a lawsuit in the USA against Industrial Heat, alleging that he was not paid an $89 million licensing fee due after a one-year test period of an E-Cat unit.

Industrial Heat's comment on the lawsuit was that after three years of effort they were unable to reproduce Rossi's E-Cat test results.

Uh oh, Kevmo.

20 posted on 06/18/2016 11:20:20 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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