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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."
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I think that fusion research is great and all, and I do think that it has potential. But I'm tired of hearing scientists say, "we're only a decade away!"
Note to future readers of ambitious scientists: ten years means, "we don't really have any idea where we are, but we're getting really close!"
I guess that I kind of feel for them (the scientists), since the public is really unwilling to fund "blue sky" research, but to keep prognosticating like this is irresponsible. Predicting timelines is best left to engineers.
For years, fusion has been 50 years away.
Make that, for about 50 years, fusion has been 10 to 50 years away, depending upon who's asked. It's the perpetual funding machine of "big science." At least the quantum physics people actually keep finding new things. All these fusion idiots find are more hairbrained schemes and funding shortfalls.
Let's teach 'em all Pashtun and send them off into Afghanistan to find terrorists - they might succeed at that, whereas they surely haven't with fusion. If they fail, well... there's several hundred millions of dollars we're not wasting on "fusion research" i.e., welfare for well connected politico-physicists.
Why try to put the Sun in a bottle when we've got a good one already up in the sky? Use that energy instead of trying to capture the genie in some lab. We should be putting research into solar generating satellites with microwave power links to the surface, surface solar power, geothermal, ocean tidal and wave power, wind power, etc. Instead, we're wasting billions on fusion research welfare for a few academics who spend entire careers doing it, and retire handsomely with no useful results! Gee, I hope they all enjoy their pensions earned by achieving nothing of any use to anyone: thanks a lot!
It's not like we don't have a few billion years to figure it out, leave Sol for a younger star. Defund this fusion crap - do something worthwhile instead!
Sure, science welfare pork barrel dollars are somehow worth more than a canal, a dam, a highway, some Federal facility? It's arguable that many of those other projects have real utility, as opposed to the billions poured into not-much-to-show "science" garbage. My point was that we shouldn't be funding wildly, outrageously expensive welfare projects for politically connected grant-mavens chasing a holy grail that's provably out of reach with our current understanding of more basic science. We need to do the more basic science first, rather than chase pie-in-the-sky home runs that never happen.
Yeah fusion fuel would provide a way to take oil-power away from middle eastern terrorists too.
The economy (and civilization) will collapse when we run out of oil, and those people won't be in charge of jack shit anymore. If they're lucky they'll just get their heads put on a pike. If they're not they and their descendants will spend hundreds of years hiding out in an underground bunker waiting for people to forget about them. The economy that arises from that will be fusion based and people who want to acquire exclusive rights to mine anything will have to sign over their reproductive organs to the public to ensure they don't get out of control.