Fusion Reactor Sets New Endurance Record

!splut writes "Fusion fans out there will be interested to know that an experimental French fusion reactor has set a new duration record of 210 seconds. Most fusion reactor research works (or tries to) by containing and compressing a quantity of plasma via an electomagnetic field in a toroidial chamber. Fusion energy could potentially provide a a clean, efficient, and virtually inexhaustible source of energy, but fusion reactoins have proven difficult to contain and control, so this is a significant achievement."

Comments

Whoo hoo!

[Anonymous Coward]

only 20 billion more seconds to go!

There goes the greenhouse effect ..... :(

[Anonymous Coward]

Just when we finally had everyone convinced that the world would end without "green" taxes ...

I guess we are back to the situation when it was predicted that london would drown in horse shit due to increasing traffic, and some idiot invented the car ....

Now we'll have to go and figure out a new way to end the world :(

- Lomborg