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Alternative to Tokamak Fusion Reactor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fun-with-government-spending dept.

Sterling D. Allan writes to tell us OpenSourceEnergy is reporting on a "far more feasible and profoundly less expensive approach to hot fusion". Inventor Eric Lerner's focus fusion process uses hydrogen and boron to combine into helium which gives off tremendous energy with a very small material requirement. Lerner's project apparently only requires a few million in capital investment which is a far cry from the $10 billion being spent on the Tokamak fusion project.

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  1. Re:Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads .. by tsa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hahaha ROFLOL!

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  2. What about hydrogen by g3n0m · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They use hydrogen and boron, but where do you get hydrogen... you can use eletricity or get it from fossile fuels, but I don't see this problem being mentioned anywhere in the article. If you take the energy needed for producing hydrogen, I wonder if the reaction really breaks even.
    If the output is anywhere near what they are promising, then i would think that this should be a problem, but I still can't help myself and wonder...

  3. Re:cranks? by Ozwald · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Um, that's an awefully negative statement without any actual reason. Do you have any actual Informative (moderators, you suck) information that can tell me that this technology will fail? From the article it sounds like the next big thing after hydrocarbons, hell, I would love to see it either to be a proven success or failure. If it succeeds, well then HOLY SHIT! If not, oh well.

    But to say some dumb post that says it's a dumb idea and gets moderated to informative? Sigh, it's slashdot.

    Oz