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France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant
ScentCone writes "After years of politicking, France has won the right to be the location for a $12 billion fusion research facility. The plant will use deuterium-from-seawater and a huge electromagnetic ring to produce the 100-million-C conditions in which researchers hope to produce viable fusion. The debate over whether this is even possible continues to rage. The ITER project started in 1985, and there has been a running fight over money and location since. France indicated that if Japan (one of the holdouts) didn't see it their way, they'd build a coalition of the willing and do it anyway. With financing and contracting agreements in place, the 10-year construction can begin." Coverage also available at MSNBC, the NYTimes, CNN, and the BBC.
Nah they just need to refer to it as 'Solar Power' and people will think it's great!
School must have been optional for you, where you come from...
Where I come from, 2005 - 1985 != 10
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
I keep hearing that next to Fermi Labs, there are now snakes with two heads and albino deer
Yeah, but how do they taste?
I would have prefered India, I've been a big fan of Indian Fusion for a long time. Who's ever heard of French Fusion anyway?
It will be available just in time to power Longhorn on the latest Intel. Oh yeah, and maybe restore power to the undersea Internet link to Pakistan.
Here in Colorado, USA, we're getting a new coal fired electrical plant. Stick with proven technology, we always say.
The Luddites were ahead of their time.
According to Sim City 2000, we don't get fusion power til 2050
So are American politicians going to call this new energy "Freedom Fusion?"
insert inflammatory anti-microsoft comment here
...and won?!?!?!
The old De Gaul slogan: Follow me! I'm right behind you!
Oh well, what the hell...
why was this give an "insightful" score? this is one of the most ignorant statements i've ever heard! because we (greenpeace) care about the environment, we're all crazy?
I know. I live in Arkansas too. When I marry my sister; she takes MY name. Jesus! Gosh darn yankees.
we're trying to phase out coal. That technology never really panned out for us, even though we mine a lot of good coal here. Our Amish lobby is just too strong. We'll still sell it to Colorado, though.
We're going back to wood. The initial leading choice for the fuel is oak, since those are the biggest, oldest trees we have. When those are gone, the maple crop should be ready.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
They could just build one of these..
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/mahg/tests/mahg2c.htm
with a measured 1500% efficiency..
-or-
one of these
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/vsg/index.htm
which has a measured COP of 3.46% and is acutally fusion..
it already exists.. just need a large scale version of it
Oddly enough, despite their win/loss ratio, France is still around.
That never stops bugging me.
RTFA again for the best results.
You can put it in my front yard. It has got to look better out my window than the freeway I look at now. (The freeway is ~ 1/2 mile away, close enough to be ugly, far enough that there is room for a fusion reactor to block that view)
I like the swamps in my backyard, even if they do breed billions of mosquitoes. I I'm technically a NIMBY guy. They can have the front yard though.
The French have one military victory, and it messes up our language for centuries!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Sounds like a reasonable trade-off after whoring yourself out to your company like that.
I have a website. It's about Macs.
Easy. Refrag is the little man in my computer that keeps fragmenting my hard disk, even though I keep defragging it.
*blank stare* What?
Karnal
You mean we should spend the money in two places at once?
Your new economic theory intrigues me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Reminds me a bit of what happened in the NZ government when the Green party finally got some MPs voted in. What happened was an MP from one of the big parties distributed a joke email about the dangers of oxygen-dihydride and that hundreds of New Zealanders die from exposure to it each year.
Well without stopping to ask a chemist what h20 was, the Green party imediately issued a press release calling for a nation-wide ban on all of this dangerous chemical. Needless to say it would be rather difficult given that we are a nation of islands!
Karma? Hey I just call it as I see it.
Better yet, tie electrodes to their balls and give them a 1KW shock every time they sit down to rest.
If you're spending precious seconds thinking about what Greenpeace wants, then you have already lost.
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I was at one of their mercury testing events where they served coffee that was brewed with solar power. They're nice people, and the chicks were really cute.
You should go to some industry shows for the chemical, oil and coal industries. They'll serve you coffee brewed with electricity generated at a coal plant. The reps will be very nice people to you, and the chicks in the booth will be really cute.
Um, your not supposed to eat the protective wax covering.
Dude, have you ever known any 'activist chicks'? The ones I've known have been fairly intelligent and more likely to be a engineer or businessperson than most girls. Do not confuse proactive, activist types with the stoner chicks...
Although, knowing how to play guitar will get you more of both kinds of girls than being a rich programmer.