Just like computers, the first ones were huge room sized bulky things, now you have something the size of a book that has 100 times more power then that old huge one.
The best part is if an incident happens, theres no fallout. The reaction merely stops, and the containment unit is the only thing to worry about. Safe, cheap and easy. Support the research so they can get there!!
@eitan71 Because the larger scale it is, the easier it is to maintain because the plasma can stay hot with less outside intervention. Such a small-scale fusion plant would actually be *more* complex to build and maintain than this one.
This is going to take about 200 years to get working. Face facts we going to have to go through another dark age. We need more nuclear power station. Its safe and a good reliable energy.
I'm a fan of the LHC, but I don't understand why it made the mainstream news so often, when ITER seems to be invisible to the general public. Whether you think tokamak or stellarator is the better route, it is undeniable that the ITER project is going to be a significant part of the energy paradigm shift. C'mon mass media! Pick up this story!
if we can do simple fusion, it seems that we should eventually be able to make any element by the same process expanded onto each other, turning ~ 79 hydrogens into gold. And making those elements will be exothermic. Jeeze... we really need to get this done.
Harnessing fusion is likely one of the single most important technology leaps our species has ever had, launching us into the stars.
@bdhcarbon agreed! ... and the best thing about it is, its possible with our current technology ... every one hundred years we develope a technology that changes us as a species. this hundred years, it will be fusion
It can not to restrain(to master) the plasma at 150 millions if degree in a precincts of 830metres cube without a internal magnetic trap. The plasma must not let touch the walls of the installation, but only the internal wall of the magnetic trap. In Sun, the solar gravitation not confine the thermonuclear plasma, but only the trap of the solar magnetosphere.That is why is obscurity(dark) in the round of the Sun and in the round of the Earth.
Am I right in thinking the most they got out of JET was 1 second of plasma? If so, how is ITER going to be any different?, are they building the chamber out of radically different materials?
any other tokamaks that you have seen was to experiment with different things, data logging, pretty much the grunt work of research. ITER is purely to show its true thermal output, which is the end product of a sustained plasma burn.
Oh ok cool, so if ITER does what it is supposed to do, then fusion reactors will then follow and start popping up around the globe and in time, eventually become our primary energy source?
@Dangerous2099 yeah pretty much, if you check out ITER's website they have a full history about it and plans in the future. The first summit was held by presidents back in 1985
I really hope the size of the ITER tokamak chamber will ensure a self-sustaining reaction. In theory it should, but it's still unproven and there are many doubters out there. Would be such a waste to throw all that money away. Laser-powered fusion might be a good alternative, I hear a US science group is making excellent progress and may be able to produce a comercially viable reactor within this decade.
thay are not building a powerplant yet only a test unit with limited functinality, it will also have alot more mesuring and scientific equipent then would be on a power plant, the parts have beed designed for easy changing to try making it eficiant, once the details are all worked out thay will make it alot more robust and user friendly.
the fuel is limited because thay cant prosess a large amout of exauhst as thay dont have turbines in place to harnes the energy, but thay can baced on that calculate output and make changes. their goal is a stable sustainable fusion, which has been proven but thay still want to perfect the design so when it does get used 100% duty making real power, thay can do remot mainenece without having masive down time and without haveing to put people in a contaminated reactor.
there is enough deuterium in sea water to provide electricity production through fusion for 2 million years for the whole planet even factoring in annual growth in demand and continual population growth. As our species isn't expected to last that long it is effectively limitless as far as we are concerned, the experiements you have heard of only last fractions of a second because we have to yet to develope a self sustaining reaction.
what i mean by self sustaining, is self sustaing. aka the fusion reaction generates enough heat to allow more fusion reactions to occur, so far we can only cause a tiny fusion reaction to occur which doesn't generate enough to heat to keep the reaction going. the plasma rapidly cools when helium ash forms, the by product of fusion cooling the reactor down proventing further fusion, we have yet to reach temperatures and pressures sufficient to spark a proper fusion reaction
Too bad cars don't run on stupidity cause we have that in abundance, for reference look at how many views do videos with cats have compared to this one. I rest my case.
@vampov it uses hydrogen to fuse into helium so it wont help the car industry. thing is though hydrogen is the most abundant material around we cant run out
@BloodApok dude if you went to school you'd know the Earth goes through warming and cooling cycles anyway -_-
the sun is only half way through its life and its size will not change much if at all (its doesnt need to its size and heat is enough to keep fussion going, it only needs to increase in size to fuse helium which its no where near doing 4.5-5billion years ring a bell?) get an education before opening your mouth it will do us all a favour.
2050 eh? Can't help but think we'll have some other type of renewable energy in place before then.....or.....we......could be throwing stones at one another amidst a post-apocalyptic radioactive shitheep. Let's hope it's the former. Cheers!
2050?global warming will become irreversable, the poppulation of the world almost double, food production will not meet this poppulation.These are only a few because i dont want to sound truly morbid about the situation but we need to perfect every type of renewable source of energy, replant more and more trees and repoppulate the ocean with plankton if we are going to make it as a specie for the following few centuries(and yes i realise i sound like al gore)
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wow. u are a spoon fed algorian. . global warming? who gives a shit. if you think humans can truly irreversibly affect this planets climate you are ignorant. far greater forces are at work (think sun). and who gives a shit about the population increasing. this has NOTHING to do with Europe or the US. the dramatic increase is happening in india, china...and a bunch of third world countries. the population will reach equilibrium with food supply, or ppl will starve. it sure as hell won't be me.
There is other green energy that people are looking at in the meantime luckily. I doubt that this fusion will be the one to save the day, but you never know.
There need to be serious regulations on energy otherwise not enough people will care fast enough.
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Sorry to let you al down, but ITER's dont work. Check out IEC's they are the only working reactors in the world... And if funded properly, would be comercially available in two years.
True, it won't be possible with this project. Look toward fusion projects built on the much simpler and elegant Polywell principle. With proper funding, we'd have a working reactor within a decade.
"By 2050? Sorry, we need it RIGHT NOW! Stop fucking around and get serious about this problem."
The problem isn't getting energy. Use fission in the interim, renewables if they ever become competitive(needs very cheap grid energy storage). The problem is the largely irrational fear of fission and the fact that so many things rely on chemical fuels like oil and gas, not electrical power.
I think we can survive. The Uranium of the world will not run out for about a 1000 years in the pase we use it today. There will be time, patience Luke Fusionwalker, patience!
If we only used nuclear energy for all our energy supply, the Uranium avaliable on earth would run out in a matter of years. (This is because we can only extract 0.7% of the energy in Uranium)
Hello this problem is solved a reactor type is exist wich can create plutonium.If you got the industrie you can make it pure(uranium or plutonium.I think the big brains forget only one thing what is the fate of the depleted uranium?what we must do with it.I tihnk we must find a way to use fission more effective way.We cant use fusion in every of our live.50 YEARS AHEAD IN TIME WE CAN MAKE one(!!) fusion reactor but, but we need more.
umm..fusion wont be using uranium it uses deutritium and where do u find deutritium? seawater. O its would take over 7 million years to finish all the deutritium on the planet. :).
"umm..fusion wont be using uranium it uses deutritium and where do u find deutritium?"
And tritium, and where do you find that? By bombarding lithium with fast fusion neutrons. And lithium is only 10 times more abundant than uranium.
"7 million years to finish all the deutritium on the planet. :)."
Not even close. We could do 7 million years quite easily on just the uranium with careful use. The deuterium resource is ridiculously much larger than that.
"As I understand it, even implementing breeder technologies fission fuels would be exhausted with about 5000 years."
Every time you go down a factor 10 in ore grade for uranium you find about 300 times as much uranium. A breeder reactor(e.g. the IFR) that uses 100 times less uranium also enables you to mine ~90 000 more uranium from the Earth cost effectively. Fuel is a very small part of costs for current reactors.
There's also thorium, which is even more abundant(see the LFTR).
I'm well aware that fuel costs are marginal compared with the capital investments in building a plant. Don't get me wrong, next generation fission reactors are a must in the immediate term. As for fusion, ultimately it is desired that tritium not be a requirement and that a DD fuel or D Helium-3 be used instead once Lawson criteria for these advanced fuels are accessed.
yes it is that answer but not with the tokomakes. watch the video "should Google go nuclear" to see a better version that has ZERO radioactivity fall out and is a much smaller reactor that out puts more energy then these tokomakes has ever put out. but sadly the government is funding the failing ones and not the one that works
You should also check out inertial confinement fusion(in particular fast ignition and recent advancement in laser tech) and focus fusion in a dense plasma target(compact design and would not require a conventional turbine which would significantly cut costs).
It's a promising design. If you trust Bussards' analysis of the last runs of WB6 it was about as good as the JET tokamak and if the scaling laws hold true and the engineering challenges work out you could build a fairly small fusion reactor.
Even aneutronic fusion produces some neutrons, so you still need quite a bit of shielding.
@sociopathicregret Question is, is it more cost worthy then fossil fuels at this point? Until you can make it work we are to rely on natural and synthetic petroleum...so you sure as hell hurry, or the Arabians will put you and your egghead friend's ass on the street. Make it profitable and society will accept it, until then its a pipe dream and nothing more.
5:50 I want his job.
CognitiveNetwork 5 months ago
Wrong. Eventually, the energy supplies will be used up from the earths crust, taking millions of years.
CognitiveNetwork 5 months ago
Start big, end small.
Just like computers, the first ones were huge room sized bulky things, now you have something the size of a book that has 100 times more power then that old huge one.
spiritronin 9 months ago
thanks for uploading.
reistje 10 months ago
The best part is if an incident happens, theres no fallout. The reaction merely stops, and the containment unit is the only thing to worry about. Safe, cheap and easy. Support the research so they can get there!!
shkotay 11 months ago
ok, this big scale fusion is really cool.
but why so big?
why not start with something smaller like using it for home electricity, or cars...?
(and sorry for my broken english)
eitan71 11 months ago
@eitan71 Because the larger scale it is, the easier it is to maintain because the plasma can stay hot with less outside intervention. Such a small-scale fusion plant would actually be *more* complex to build and maintain than this one.
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@DaWolf805
a-ha, ok.
thank you for your answer :)
eitan71 10 months ago
@eitan71 At 4:06 they say that they will construct it to 800 cubic meters in order to use less outer energy to heat the plasma.
hrbear 8 months ago
This is going to take about 200 years to get working. Face facts we going to have to go through another dark age. We need more nuclear power station. Its safe and a good reliable energy.
Blunder1248 1 year ago
@Blunder1248
If you start reading on wikipedia you will see that the ITER project is actualy FINISHED in 2035.
Im putting my money on the guess we will have multiple fusion plants by the year 2050.
WitchieNL 11 months ago
Imagine the possibilities!
coppurt 1 year ago
I'm a fan of the LHC, but I don't understand why it made the mainstream news so often, when ITER seems to be invisible to the general public. Whether you think tokamak or stellarator is the better route, it is undeniable that the ITER project is going to be a significant part of the energy paradigm shift. C'mon mass media! Pick up this story!
PopArt 1 year ago 2
@PopArt because there are lots of people interested in delaying it.
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violafinishda 1 year ago
none of this research will matter because in 2012 a giant solar flare is going to wipe out electricty anyway. lol
ChaoticPasta 1 year ago
if we can do simple fusion, it seems that we should eventually be able to make any element by the same process expanded onto each other, turning ~ 79 hydrogens into gold. And making those elements will be exothermic. Jeeze... we really need to get this done.
Harnessing fusion is likely one of the single most important technology leaps our species has ever had, launching us into the stars.
bdhcarbon 1 year ago
@bdhcarbon agreed! ... and the best thing about it is, its possible with our current technology ... every one hundred years we develope a technology that changes us as a species. this hundred years, it will be fusion
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bdhcarbon 1 year ago
when we have fusion will all buildings have those cool blue outlines?
jacksawild 1 year ago
great, but we still need new battery technologies..
costescuandrei1975 1 year ago 7
Fusion power is the future, its just a question of engineering and finance now.
Aslapacrosstheface 1 year ago
SandustanBrasov
It can not to restrain(to master) the plasma at 150 millions if degree in a precincts of 830metres cube without a internal magnetic trap. The plasma must not let touch the walls of the installation, but only the internal wall of the magnetic trap. In Sun, the solar gravitation not confine the thermonuclear plasma, but only the trap of the solar magnetosphere.That is why is obscurity(dark) in the round of the Sun and in the round of the Earth.
sandustanBrasov 1 year ago
Am I right in thinking the most they got out of JET was 1 second of plasma? If so, how is ITER going to be any different?, are they building the chamber out of radically different materials?
Dangerous2099 2 years ago
any other tokamaks that you have seen was to experiment with different things, data logging, pretty much the grunt work of research. ITER is purely to show its true thermal output, which is the end product of a sustained plasma burn.
803brando 2 years ago
Oh ok cool, so if ITER does what it is supposed to do, then fusion reactors will then follow and start popping up around the globe and in time, eventually become our primary energy source?
Dangerous2099 2 years ago
@Dangerous2099 yeah pretty much, if you check out ITER's website they have a full history about it and plans in the future. The first summit was held by presidents back in 1985
803brando 2 years ago
I really hope the size of the ITER tokamak chamber will ensure a self-sustaining reaction. In theory it should, but it's still unproven and there are many doubters out there. Would be such a waste to throw all that money away. Laser-powered fusion might be a good alternative, I hear a US science group is making excellent progress and may be able to produce a comercially viable reactor within this decade.
niczo 2 years ago
thay are not building a powerplant yet only a test unit with limited functinality, it will also have alot more mesuring and scientific equipent then would be on a power plant, the parts have beed designed for easy changing to try making it eficiant, once the details are all worked out thay will make it alot more robust and user friendly.
nickolastd21 2 years ago
the fuel is limited because thay cant prosess a large amout of exauhst as thay dont have turbines in place to harnes the energy, but thay can baced on that calculate output and make changes. their goal is a stable sustainable fusion, which has been proven but thay still want to perfect the design so when it does get used 100% duty making real power, thay can do remot mainenece without having masive down time and without haveing to put people in a contaminated reactor.
nickolastd21 2 years ago
How is this limitless? The experiments I've hear of last barely seconds. And there is a limited amount of deuterium.
jetsam50000 2 years ago
there is enough deuterium in sea water to provide electricity production through fusion for 2 million years for the whole planet even factoring in annual growth in demand and continual population growth. As our species isn't expected to last that long it is effectively limitless as far as we are concerned, the experiements you have heard of only last fractions of a second because we have to yet to develope a self sustaining reaction.
cah404 2 years ago
What do you mean by self sustaining? Like if we got it going it could last hours or days on a reasonable amount of fuel?
jetsam50000 2 years ago
what i mean by self sustaining, is self sustaing. aka the fusion reaction generates enough heat to allow more fusion reactions to occur, so far we can only cause a tiny fusion reaction to occur which doesn't generate enough to heat to keep the reaction going. the plasma rapidly cools when helium ash forms, the by product of fusion cooling the reactor down proventing further fusion, we have yet to reach temperatures and pressures sufficient to spark a proper fusion reaction
cah404 2 years ago
And now I know, AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE!!!
jetsam50000 2 years ago
@jetsam50000 the amount of deuterium in the oceans would supply the world with energy for hundreds of millions of years
ThrowingItAway 2 years ago
Too bad cars don't run on stupidity cause we have that in abundance, for reference look at how many views do videos with cats have compared to this one. I rest my case.
BonScottAC 2 years ago 11
The real cool thing about fussion is not only abundance of energy but it gives us the ability to make Hydrogen for vehicles and what not.
vampov 2 years ago 2
@vampov it uses hydrogen to fuse into helium so it wont help the car industry. thing is though hydrogen is the most abundant material around we cant run out
CaptainCrumple 2 years ago
Only problem is it has been (now+50 years) away from practical use for 50 years now..
pohjalo 2 years ago
I hope this becomes practical!!..
Unlimited energy for the win!!
martinaoe2 2 years ago
this is the future.. especially as it is clean and we won't need to fight over oil anymore. Aircraft can fly on biofuel.
SOAS007 2 years ago
and natural gas
vampov 2 years ago
Global warming is a myth!
But still I like the idea of Fusion Power :)
BloodApok 2 years ago
your existence is a myth! read a book every once in a while!
Soulflyer123 2 years ago
just because the media makes you buy "bio-friendly" stuff which is totaly useless and won't be of any use, anyway, doesn't mean we will all die...
damn, people should start thinking again, BEFORE they make stupid comments.
Ever thought of, the sun is getting bigger and bigger?
But people like you, who actually failed in school, don't know of such thinks, cause they are too blind to see the truth.
srsly man you should use your brain and not let the media do that for you
BloodApok 2 years ago
@BloodApok dude if you went to school you'd know the Earth goes through warming and cooling cycles anyway -_-
the sun is only half way through its life and its size will not change much if at all (its doesnt need to its size and heat is enough to keep fussion going, it only needs to increase in size to fuse helium which its no where near doing 4.5-5billion years ring a bell?) get an education before opening your mouth it will do us all a favour.
CaptainCrumple 2 years ago
The way I see it, you just agreed to me? O_ô
You make no sense =P
Global warming presented in the media is PURE bullshit.
amen
BloodApok 2 years ago
how the hell did i agree with ya when i just disprovved your opinion on the matter of global warming???
*Ever thought of, the sun is getting bigger and bigger* which is completely false unless the sun will die in the next 100years
CaptainCrumple 2 years ago
soulflyer is a dick
scientists & the govt don't know any more than us so suck it bitch
Cobaltarian 2 years ago
2050 eh? Can't help but think we'll have some other type of renewable energy in place before then.....or.....we......could be throwing stones at one another amidst a post-apocalyptic radioactive shitheep. Let's hope it's the former. Cheers!
8DoverNJ 2 years ago 3
D + T → 4He + n is the way of fusion
wefiyhigh56 2 years ago 3
ther fuel cycles (D-3He and 3He-3He) would require a supply of 3He, duh!
wefiyhigh56 2 years ago
2050?global warming will become irreversable, the poppulation of the world almost double, food production will not meet this poppulation.These are only a few because i dont want to sound truly morbid about the situation but we need to perfect every type of renewable source of energy, replant more and more trees and repoppulate the ocean with plankton if we are going to make it as a specie for the following few centuries(and yes i realise i sound like al gore)
pblennerhassett 2 years ago
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wow. u are a spoon fed algorian. . global warming? who gives a shit. if you think humans can truly irreversibly affect this planets climate you are ignorant. far greater forces are at work (think sun). and who gives a shit about the population increasing. this has NOTHING to do with Europe or the US. the dramatic increase is happening in india, china...and a bunch of third world countries. the population will reach equilibrium with food supply, or ppl will starve. it sure as hell won't be me.
BrookeLeeann00 2 years ago
you're damn right man!!!
why is there no vote up? -.-
BloodApok 2 years ago
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global warming?
oh you must be one of those people!!
Donninator1 2 years ago
There is other green energy that people are looking at in the meantime luckily. I doubt that this fusion will be the one to save the day, but you never know.
There need to be serious regulations on energy otherwise not enough people will care fast enough.
leelguy 2 years ago
wonderful
ironmanNavy 2 years ago
i building a much more efficient fuison reactor to power my SPACE SHIP. Alice and I are going to the moon.
probe26 2 years ago
The EU throws a whole lot of money out the window, but at least they got this right.
recliner9876 3 years ago 33
@recliner9876 There is no much fuss about this project, it seems like EU was very busy on the project of CERN.
hrbear 1 year ago
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Sorry to let you al down, but ITER's dont work. Check out IEC's they are the only working reactors in the world... And if funded properly, would be comercially available in two years.
Venturestarx 3 years ago
Sorry to let you know. It Does Work. It worked with Jet and it will certainly work with Iter.
Dutchdrummer99 3 years ago 3
Good job keep up the world of love and trust working as a team that everyone wins with!
Oh By the have you seen any UFO's around the place around the time of your world testing's.
davinpilling 3 years ago
they should have called it black mesa
nice1holmes 3 years ago
By 2050? Sorry, we need it RIGHT NOW! Stop fucking around and get serious about this problem. We need it in 5 yrs minimum.
fringefries 3 years ago
It won't become possible to develop that within 5 years just because you want.
JazTony 3 years ago 4
True, it won't be possible with this project. Look toward fusion projects built on the much simpler and elegant Polywell principle. With proper funding, we'd have a working reactor within a decade.
henrikmk 3 years ago
Polywell is an interesting idea, but a great advantage of the Tokamak principle is that it can really produce more energy than it uses ;)
JazTony 3 years ago 6
"By 2050? Sorry, we need it RIGHT NOW! Stop fucking around and get serious about this problem."
The problem isn't getting energy. Use fission in the interim, renewables if they ever become competitive(needs very cheap grid energy storage). The problem is the largely irrational fear of fission and the fact that so many things rely on chemical fuels like oil and gas, not electrical power.
soylentgreenb 3 years ago 5
i ter is still only a researching playground.
The noted that they have to built another one wich can be the proto to the first commercial reactor....
gun844 3 years ago
still no recognisable results, they should do something quick, our people wont buy it. we also need it with global warming and all.
harshvgaus 4 years ago
Mybe in 100 years America might follow europes lead.
aZeroGodist 4 years ago
amazing
FreddoX1 4 years ago
A 35 yr wait is way too long for commercial production we need this yesterday!
cyclopticeye 4 years ago 3
I think we can survive. The Uranium of the world will not run out for about a 1000 years in the pase we use it today. There will be time, patience Luke Fusionwalker, patience!
FreddoX1 4 years ago
If we only used nuclear energy for all our energy supply, the Uranium avaliable on earth would run out in a matter of years. (This is because we can only extract 0.7% of the energy in Uranium)
TheAmazingFuturist 4 years ago
australia has most of uranium, there is crap loads of it in the desert, dont worry.
harshvgaus 4 years ago
Hello this problem is solved a reactor type is exist wich can create plutonium.If you got the industrie you can make it pure(uranium or plutonium.I think the big brains forget only one thing what is the fate of the depleted uranium?what we must do with it.I tihnk we must find a way to use fission more effective way.We cant use fusion in every of our live.50 YEARS AHEAD IN TIME WE CAN MAKE one(!!) fusion reactor but, but we need more.
gun844 3 years ago
dont worry, australia has most of the uranium on earth, we'll get rich.
harshvgaus 4 years ago
umm..fusion wont be using uranium it uses deutritium and where do u find deutritium? seawater. O its would take over 7 million years to finish all the deutritium on the planet. :).
rustygates 3 years ago
"umm..fusion wont be using uranium it uses deutritium and where do u find deutritium?"
And tritium, and where do you find that? By bombarding lithium with fast fusion neutrons. And lithium is only 10 times more abundant than uranium.
"7 million years to finish all the deutritium on the planet. :)."
Not even close. We could do 7 million years quite easily on just the uranium with careful use. The deuterium resource is ridiculously much larger than that.
soylentgreenb 3 years ago 2
As I understand it, even implementing breeder technologies fission fuels would be exhausted with about 5000 years.
joshuaki3 3 years ago
"As I understand it, even implementing breeder technologies fission fuels would be exhausted with about 5000 years."
Every time you go down a factor 10 in ore grade for uranium you find about 300 times as much uranium. A breeder reactor(e.g. the IFR) that uses 100 times less uranium also enables you to mine ~90 000 more uranium from the Earth cost effectively. Fuel is a very small part of costs for current reactors.
There's also thorium, which is even more abundant(see the LFTR).
soylentgreenb 3 years ago
I'm well aware that fuel costs are marginal compared with the capital investments in building a plant. Don't get me wrong, next generation fission reactors are a must in the immediate term. As for fusion, ultimately it is desired that tritium not be a requirement and that a DD fuel or D Helium-3 be used instead once Lawson criteria for these advanced fuels are accessed.
joshuaki3 3 years ago
not really, if we were to use only uranium for our current energy demands than we would run out in only 24 years
HaloMonkeys 3 years ago
yes it is that answer but not with the tokomakes. watch the video "should Google go nuclear" to see a better version that has ZERO radioactivity fall out and is a much smaller reactor that out puts more energy then these tokomakes has ever put out. but sadly the government is funding the failing ones and not the one that works
GANTZ100pts 4 years ago 2
thanks for that reference!!!
jseal1 4 years ago
You should also check out inertial confinement fusion(in particular fast ignition and recent advancement in laser tech) and focus fusion in a dense plasma target(compact design and would not require a conventional turbine which would significantly cut costs).
soylentgreenb 4 years ago
It's a promising design. If you trust Bussards' analysis of the last runs of WB6 it was about as good as the JET tokamak and if the scaling laws hold true and the engineering challenges work out you could build a fairly small fusion reactor.
Even aneutronic fusion produces some neutrons, so you still need quite a bit of shielding.
soylentgreenb 4 years ago
the tokamak is the best to do the first studies of big fusion machines.
It's not a stupid idea to start this way.
It will not be a failing concept.
DrRandale 4 years ago 2
Fusion power needs funding to be the future.
sociopathicregret 4 years ago 29
@sociopathicregret Question is, is it more cost worthy then fossil fuels at this point? Until you can make it work we are to rely on natural and synthetic petroleum...so you sure as hell hurry, or the Arabians will put you and your egghead friend's ass on the street. Make it profitable and society will accept it, until then its a pipe dream and nothing more.
davedavedaveannoy1 1 year ago
@davedavedaveannoy1 Not at this point, but they aren't even putting any real effort into it. Thatll probably change eventually
sociopathicregret 1 year ago
Fusion is the answer!!!
edinBul 4 years ago 4