Sandia Labs Takes First Steps Toward Fusion

robosmall writes "Sandia Labs has successfully demostrated the emission of neutrons (a side effect of thermonuclear fusion) from a BB-sized capsule of deuterium using using their venerable Z-Machine (eye-candy!). With this achievement they enter the race to create sustained fusion reactions."

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Re:Can't Stress This Enough...

[olePigeon (Wik)]

I finally feel, for the first time in my 28 years, that humanity is actually doing something DIFFERENT and NEW, as opposed to slapping a rev 27 on an old idea. I assume you mean after this war on Iraq (oh, and Syria... and Iran.) Then hummanity will actually do something different. No, really. We will. This is the last war that includes ownership of oil fields, seriously.

If CorpGovMedia controls it, it will be expensive

[cryofan2]

Not really. As long as CorpGovMedia has control of the power, it will be as expensive as they can make it. How can expensive can they make? As expensive as oil.

As long as we abdicate control of our own govt to corporate forces, why should it be otherwise?

Re:If CorpGovMedia controls it, it will be expensi

[amRadioHed]

I really doubt that they could make fusion generated power as expensive as oil for one obvious reason: competition. There is very little competition in the oil supply market because the nations that are blessed with huge oil reserves would have it no other way. There is no way that a similiar fusion cartel could be created because anyone can make their own reactor once the technology is mature enough.