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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[Indrius]

@hymnofashes There won't be any better economic system as long as scarcity is present. In the conditions of scarcity we can only have a system of distribution, either self-regulating (free market capitalism), either artificially regulated (socialism) or something in between.

Unlimited and inexhaustible energy source like fusion might just be the thing that is needed to create abundance and eliminate the scarcity condition across the whole world. No scarcity = no politics and no war.

[Twinroads]

@antoniomiguelito A roman catholic physicist? How cute.

P.S. Caps lock does not make it true.

[Yossus]

so proud to say this guy is my lecturer ^.^

[ryanseelig]

@Twinroads oh yes it dose and a bigger text makes it truer

[crudhousefull]

@finalfantasy13c Please don't until you understand yourself

[crudhousefull]

@dannukesem As opposed to the changes during the last century...or the century before that...or the century before that.

[Phi1point62]

Tokamak Fusion is a waste of time and money. The future of energy lies in Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Focus Fusion. $50 million towards their project and we'd have fusion within ten years. Its fuel, decaborane, is nearly limitless. Energy production would be less the 1 cent per kWH. Its quite safe and produces no nuclear waste. A FoFu generator would generate about 5MW and fit in about the area of a garage, therefore you could engineer it to run a train, plane or spaceship.

[assholefuckerjackass]

goten and trunks had the answer all along!!

[Fusiontron]

Cold fusion is pseudoscience.

[Darkwizzrobe]

Lithium Fluoride Thorium Reactor

[manmanguy]

Wow. I'm glad we don't have carbon taxes in America. We are already out of money. Hells bells. We're fucking broke.

[CntthnkO15]

"I wish we had more money." Wow, so pathetic, what this pathetic system does to people. Not only has it directly made 1 billion people too poor to even feed themselves and almost laugh the worlds population living under 2 dollars, it stops us from expanding innovations such as this. This is just one of many reasons why I advocate The Zeitgeist Movement. Look into it people, we need it, right now.