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Possible breakthrough? We'll see in 2014. Because other than ITER (Where every nation wants access to the know-how, so there's either haggling over who builds the important parts or they just build the same screw ten times) Wendelstein is mostly on schedule and budget.

1 posted on 09/21/2011 3:25:26 AM PDT by wolf78

As a geeky personal note: Stellarators are just very, very cool ;)

2 posted on 09/21/2011 3:32:26 AM PDT by wolf78 (Inflation is a form of taxation, too. Cranky Libertarian - equal opportunity offender.)

There is also no other way out of the energy bottleneck.

That said, there needs to be more than one approach, like the Manhattan Project. I think a kinetic containment is much simpler and more likely to produce >1.0. (Like a giant internal combustion fusion engine since fusion is scalable as large or small as you want.)

3 posted on 09/21/2011 3:36:01 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)

I thought Italian engineer Andrea Rossi and Professor Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna demo’ed a cold fusion reactor last January...not true?

4 posted on 09/21/2011 3:38:08 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are dumber than soup.)

It could be a couple of decades before we see the first commercial "hot" fusion powerplant--that's too long to wait!

Meanwhile, a new technology that was actually successfully demonstrated during the 1960's called the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) could become available within a decade. Amazingly safe, LFTR's use a lot less actinide fuel to generate 1,000 MW than a similar generating capacity uranium reactor, and best of all, LFTR's generate very little radioactive waste, and the waste generated only has a half-life under 300 years, which means you don't need expensive storage facilities for the waste.

With perhaps hundreds of standardized-design 1,000 MW LFTR's operating all over the USA, we could satisfy American electrical needs for hundreds of years without unsightly large-scale wind farms that could be potentially dangerous to birds or solar power arrays that hog tens of square miles of land.

10 posted on 09/21/2011 4:32:41 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)

My fishin reactor is going to built on the mental Theorium.

The danger to the public is low and the cost even lower since it’s all mental and all theory.
The date of delivery doesn’t have a deadline, it IS a dead line.

Let’ all cheer the Fishin Generator from the back of a boat!

15 posted on 09/21/2011 5:41:00 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)

Looks more promising than Rossi’s coffee can stuffed with shredded newspaper.

16 posted on 09/21/2011 5:44:02 AM PDT by SpaceBar

I already know who is not going to like this devilish machine…

17 posted on 09/21/2011 5:53:02 AM PDT by cartan

The future of nuclear is cold fusion.

http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/09/why-the-announced-e-cat-test-at-uppsala-should-tell-the-complete-story/

Tunneling Beneath the 4He Fragmentation Energy
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A model for enhanced fusion reaction in a solid matrix of metal deuterides
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Cold Fusion #1 Claims NASA Chief (Focardi & Rossi - not cold fusion but close enough)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2730240/posts
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How to Prove that the Rossi/Focardi eCAT LENR is Real
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How I Made Money from Cold Fusion
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HOW TO SAVE OUR ECONOMY
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Re-Analysis of the Marinov Light-Speed Anisotropy Experiment
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The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics
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26 posted on 09/21/2011 8:02:39 AM PDT by Kevmo (Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn't make any sense at all. ~Ronald Reagan)

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