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... we could have prototype reactor within a decade,".........
1 posted on 12/13/2017 9:29:47 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Fusion power has been a decade away since the 60s.


2 posted on 12/13/2017 9:32:25 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Red Badger

Excellent - clean fusion power is just fifteen years away. Back when I was young, they said it would take a decade and a half.


3 posted on 12/13/2017 9:33:55 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Red Badger

I feel like I have been reading this same article for the last fifty years...

Just another $10 billion and one more decade, and we will have a fusion device that actually produces more energy than it consumes!


7 posted on 12/13/2017 9:36:10 AM PST by zeestephen
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I’m holding out for the pill that turns water into gasoline.


8 posted on 12/13/2017 9:37:02 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping.


10 posted on 12/13/2017 9:38:41 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Red Badger

I think I read this same story 30 years ago!


13 posted on 12/13/2017 9:39:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Red Badger

Not sure I understand how fused H-BO atoms will produce electricity directly that can be captured. Unless what they are saying is that the fusion produces electrons....but then the higher energy values don’t make sense.

So how is the ‘direct electricity’ being captured? Induced from a generated mag field?


16 posted on 12/13/2017 9:43:06 AM PST by reed13k
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Fusion the power source of the future....and it always will be.


17 posted on 12/13/2017 9:45:51 AM PST by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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An Australian spin-off company, HB11 Energy, holds the patents for Hora’s process. “If the next few years of research don’t uncover any major engineering hurdles, we could have prototype reactor within a decade,” said Warren McKenzie, managing director of HB11.

...

In other words, it’s a scam.


22 posted on 12/13/2017 9:53:25 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Re: “...the energy generated by hydrogen-boron fusion converts directly into electricity.”

I don’t understand how that is possible.

My thanks to anyone who has a brief explanation about how that works.


23 posted on 12/13/2017 9:56:29 AM PST by zeestephen
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24 posted on 12/13/2017 10:04:19 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Liberalism, as with all else evil, can never create. It can only corrupt.)
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To: Red Badger

> within a decade,

Wow! Fusion energy, a cancer cure and a diabetes cure in 10 years. Unfortunately the earth only has a decade remaining due to global warming.


25 posted on 12/13/2017 10:06:17 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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27 posted on 12/13/2017 10:07:40 AM PST by dfwgator
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Powerful lasers required. How much power will be required to create how much power?


35 posted on 12/13/2017 11:28:08 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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39 posted on 12/13/2017 11:45:54 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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...high-intensity lasers are making it viable for scientists to pursue what was once thought impossible: creating fusion energy ..."

Hmmm...Speaking of things I once thought impossible, wish I had known about this before I let the urologist insert a laser and burn a tunnel through my prostate. It definitely created a sustained confusion reaction.

40 posted on 12/13/2017 4:28:32 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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