Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future

http://www.ted.com Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. He explains why fusion will work -- and details the projects that he and many others have devoted their lives to, working against the clock to create a new source of energy.

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you're asking the entire world to give up the one system we have of figuring out who owns what. Noble as the idea might be, even Star Trek, the most positive of imaginary futures, required a world war that wiped out vast swathes of human population and included the detonation of thousands of nukes, for us to get to a point where human progress was the only form of currency. Money isn't the problem, imperfect as it is, WE are.

[SENEFERR]

Oh yeah and the name of the fuel on the moon is Soleum ie Helium -3 also known as light helium.I call it soleum because Sol in latin means the sun (where it comes from via the million miles an hour solar wind) + oleum which on latin means oil (or rather energy producing similar to current primitive fuels like oil and gasoline).So remember Fusion not Fission , and Soleum not petroleum.For thats the future , sure as Christobel Columbus found the new world.

[RT3000GAMER]

COLD FUSION

[Tim Carpenter]

He talks as if the massively expensive ITER is the only answer. EMC2 IEC fusion has been reliably creating fusion for many years on a few tens of millions budget.

[penormightygun]

its been thirty years andf the seionor managers are all retired. they now admit they didn't no how to do it but they enjoy being retired now, thanks for the high pay and good life. 50 billion wasted

[joe smith]

sucha bullshit, we easily have 100 years probably much much more oil

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

Do you even know what your talking about? The technology has been weaponized since at least the 60's.

[Robert Stuart]

18 or more loss terms were left out of their working numbers for "break even". The temp/press values required are really 100 higher than what they claim to approach. Simple industrial fraud from high places to get to tax payer "money". I've heard this same story for 50 years, no popo.

[dlwatib]

No, we are not going to pollute the world with a lot of nuclear waste. Nuclear is great for making bombs that will annihilate the world, but we don't want to use that for domestic purposes, and there is NO need to. We especially don't want countries like North Korea to be dabbling in nuclear for any purpose.