[LibWhacker]

There are several pics and YouTube videos at the source.

It does look like the days of making fun of the never ending quest for fusion energy are coming to an end, thank the Lord!

[I-ambush]

Update: the experiment suffered an unanticipated setback when the janitor, Leon McCarthy, thought he would tidy up the workroom and his vacuum cleaner was sucked into the magnet.

[DannyTN]

Soon, but in the meantime...

[ez]

I always believed magnetism was the key to space travel. If someone could figure out how to displace the magnetic field and attract the craft it could be moved without destroying the propulsion medium. Unfortunately I’m not smart enough to figure something like that out .. maybe someday someone will.

[pepsi_junkie]

It’s been 30 years since I studied nuclear physics but as I recall the purpose of the high strength magnets are to suspend a ball of superheated plasma within a strong magnetic field at the center of a superconducting toroidal electromagnet, mostly because, you know, it’s superheated and if it touched anything bad stuff would happen. So use magnetic fields to suspend it floating. Cool.

But the energy it took to actually heat the plasma up and power the magnets was so much that it has never been worth it. What has fundamentally changed? Stronger electromagnets = good. Do they require less power?

[taxcontrol]

Any one here with more than my high school physics class, care to explain the scope of the improvement? Are we going from 2 x10^-5 tesla (average earth magnetic field) to .... what?

Is this a little improvement or a huge leap forward? The article seems to position it as a huge leap but I did not see any numbers that I can understand.

[Kevmo]

Cold Fusion is 25 ORDERS of MAGNITUDE better bang for the buck than Controlled Hot Fusion (CHF).

[SuperLuminal]

Same old song & dance...
Music the same...
Words the same...
Different musicians...

Heard it all at Princeton 56-years ago...

[Who is John Galt?]

It does look like the days of making fun of the never ending quest for fusion energy are coming to an end, thank the Lord!

Possibly - or maybe not...

*******FUSION ENERGY*******
Just around the corner since 1951!

(...and if it ever DOES become economically feasible, expect the environmentalists to ban it a year later... ;^)

[Bonemaker]

[goldbux]

Best part: you can stick it on your refrigerator door to hold long grocery-shopping lists.

[chief lee runamok]

 Anonymous artist conception.

[gundog]

Shades of Galt’s motor.

[Openurmind]

Cool... A few on a Bhaskara wheel should fix me right up!