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British Researchers Say Fusion Is Close
sh00z writes: "The article quotes a leading scientist saying that Fusion power is 'within reach' in the next decade, with commercial plants to follow within another 10 or so years. Shhhh. Don't tell anyone at Texas A&M. They might just jump the starting gun again."
I bet I can prove you wrong within two weeks, three days, six hours and 42 minutes!
^_^
Why not choose an island in the Pacific Ocean to constantly detonate H-Bombs on, surrounded by solar panels and other means to tap the resulting energy from?
Not very efficient, but at least it would generate more energy than it costs.
Also, containment of the plasma is no issue.
Maybe Afganistan would be a more suitable place to carry out this plan.
/me supports forgoil, knowing that he's been in more than one multi-national large project delivering on time.
it's in my head
Of course, fusion is a nice idea. And I'm curious if it possible, too.
But one of the last things I want to see on earth is an fusion plant. We have enough radiactiv waste on earth. And noone knows what to do with it. The best idea for it today is: Burry it, and hope that in the next million years noone and no water come accross.
And there is created lots of radioaktivity by fusion. First of all most plans have neutrons to
be created in the fusion to get energie out of it.
This neutrons are catched with graphit outside the plasma. And this graphit and the whole reaktor-chamber and the concrete of it get radiaktive by the neutrons. Ask any ingeniere, who has to do with it, and he will hav to admit, that the whole reactor-chamber has to be replaced after 30 years or earlier, because it is so radiactive, that the matrial gets to weak.
What mankind needs are regenerative energies: Water, Wind, and so on. And not another gigantomanic way to prduce atomic waste, that we have today enough of!