Europe Plans a New Type of Fusion Facility

SR71Blackbird writes "European physicists have put forward a plan for a facility that uses lasers to produce fusion. From the article: 'The laser would be used to compress and heat a small capsule of deuterium and tritium until the nuclei are hot enough to undergo nuclear fusion and produce helium and neutrons. In a reactor the energy of the neutrons would be used to generate electricity without the emission of greenhouse gases or the generation of long-lived nuclear waste.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[cahiha]

This won't do much for energy generation, but the Europeans are finally cathing up on fusion bomb research and they are learning the US PR trick of declaring it an "energy technology". There may be hope for those Europeans yet.

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[NardofDoom]

The problem is that we dont' have thirty or fifty years. We need a solution to energy problems now, especially when they're talking about coal gassification to produce petrofuels.

Pie-in-the-sky technologies like this give people an excuse not to change. We need to start conserving resources and using less energy on a drastic scale. Even with gasoline at $3.50/gallon I still saw people doing 75 on the highway all alone in their huge SUVs.