Green Light For ITER Fusion Project

brian0918 writes, "A seven-member international consortium has signed a formal agreement to build the $12.8 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). From the article: 'Representatives from China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States signed the pact, sealing a decade of negotiations. The project aims to research a clean and limitless alternative to dwindling fossil fuel reserves, although nuclear fusion remains an unproven technology.' ITER will be built 'in Cadarache, southern France, over the course of a decade, starting in 2008.'" If ITER is successful, a commercial reactor could be built by 2040. Funny, I seem to remember fusion researchers from Livermore in the 70s say that commercial power was 20 years away...

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Re:Which will arrive first?

[42Penguins]

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Re:Make Helium, Not War

[bill_mcgonigle]

W., like OBL, are fighting for their own power

It doesn't matter what the motivation is, the war is happening because of Terrorism and is being sold on that basis. Take away the excuses and it's much harder to sell a war.

I don't get your point that UBL isn't a terrorist - that appellation only describes tactics, regardless of motivation.