I hope they do it. But they have to prove it.
BTTT
It will be banned in America. The Chinese will build them, though.
"Giving society cheap, abundant energy . . . would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."
- Paul Erlich
“running in prototype form in five years and operating commercially in ten.”
2020
mark
“entire FUSION power plant could fit into the cargo hold of an airplane”
That just great- all we need is a hijacked FUSION system to IRAn for H-Bomb development- really smart Lockheed
Have heard it before and not holding my breath!
So what happens if one of the superconducting magnets breaks down and you have hundreds of millions of degrees of plasma bouncing around uncontained?
Does it quench out real quick and the reaction stops or go boom?.............Just asking.
A lot of imagines and little concrete in that article.
Fusion power has been just around the corner for 50 years.
We heard about this being right around the corner over 50 years ago.
I wish them the very best of luck, but how many times have we heard this same crap over the last 20 years.
The King prohibits such devices.
Liberals would still complain.
Sounds like 1950 all over again.
The left will find a way to vilify fusion and tax it out of existence. Energy is freedom from drudgery. The left hates drudgery but wants other to suffer it.
wake me when you’re there, boys and girls.
Believe it, before you know it, it will be here.
I expect this to be the next step in the evolution of energy generation, as well as another step forward in the evolutionary process of mankind. The same process which powers the Stars and Suns of our universe. Just consider how far we have come in only a little over one hundred years. From the discovery of radium in a tedious process of separating it from pitchblende by Marie Sklodowska, who by the way was the only woman ever to receive a Nobel Prize in two disciplines, physics and chemistry.
Fast forward, utilizing that discovery only about fifty years later the first nuclear exchange leveled Hiroshima and while Japan was still attempting to come to grips with what actually happened, three days later a second nuclear device annihilated Nagasaki. Both nuclear exchanges where milestones in the evolutionary process of “Modern Man” Even so it was nothing to be proud of, with the exception of settling a conflict which otherwise would have taken many more life’s would it have continued.
But by no means was it the first time that mankind had witnessed the application of nuclear power in a destructive manner. The first time around, at least in recorded history was about 4040 years ago, which is no more than a blink of an eye within the scope of time and eternity.
The previous or last known nuclear event took place on the Sinai Peninsular approximately 4000 years ago or 2024 BC and found its way in to history books as the event which became known as Sodom and Gomorrah.
The winds carry the radioactive cloud to Sumer. People die a terrible death , animals perish, the water is poisoned, the soil become barren. Sumer and it’s great civilization lie prostrate. Its legacy passes to Abraham’s son he begets-at age 100 - a legitimate heir: Isaac
And by the way, the remaining scars from this first nuclear exchange in that region can still be seen from a satellite photograph. The question remains will mankind learns from its mistakes or are we condemned to repeat them until we learn from history.
History has a nasty habit of wanting to repeat itself. If it happens it should come as no surprise, as sooner than later scores will have to be settled on a political as well as religious level. Since humans are habitual slow learners when it comes to certain issues, unfortunately and invariably it may take another conflict to settle such issues.
At least it is refreshing to see and know that humans also strife for a more useful utilization of nuclear power as the foregoing article points out.
