Posted on 10/06/2020 5:15:11 AM PDT by srmanuel
Begin Construction of working prototype in 2021, with a supposedly working Nuclear Fusion Reactor producing power in 2025 if all goes well and the technology actually works....
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
What do nuclear fusion and the global warming tipping point have in common?
They’re always a decade away.
Bill Gates has already solved this issue:
The best thing is it will be running on a windows OS!
Bull-hockey. Won’t happen. Lengthy article posted here a while back on why it will never happen by physicist who was involved in fusion research for years.
Power grid required to start and maintain fusion process is beyond imagination and not feasible beyond experimental. Not duplicatable in multiple sites. Much more too.
Looked for article, can’t find it, but will post if I do.
Yes I remember when I first heard the mantra “nuclear fusion— energy forever.” The projection was for about twenty years away. That was in 1962 at the Youth Conference on the Atom.
A containment failure could be fun. Hope I’m wrong about that.
I click on the link, it goes straight to the article which I read without issue....
I’ll work harder in the future to make sure you don’t have to work to find out information you might be interested in, You’re welcome...
Fusion power has been 25 years in the future for at least the last 50 years.
We need a Manhattan project for fusion.
We need basic R&D for a next generation safe, reliable fission reactor. Probably using thorium.
It’s only 30 years away....... for the last 30 years.................
Thorium has promise.
We had one. It was run by Edward Teller. Worked well. Actually.
Don’t forget, Lockheed-Martin promised they’d demonstrate break-even from fusion by 2025.
Why do we need unreliable, eyesore, land gluttons like wind and solar if we have zero-CO2 molten salt cooled reactors?
Yeahbut
What is the cost per kilowatt hour???
Yucca Mountain should be used by now.
It will be very useful in the next generation, when the nuclear waste can be fit in to a teacup and it’s half life is measured in 50 years periods, instead of thousands and takes up barrels.
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The two questions, needing to be asked at this time, in relation to the article in question, are:
1. Who makes the reactors for US Navy ships?
2. Who operates the reactors on US Navy ships?
3. Why are we not utilizing the technology available right now right this minute?
4. Does the color green have anything to do with why?
There are a number of Government Labs we the people pay dearly for that are actively engaged in fission research that remains in the hands of Government and researchers that probably ought to be in the hands of people unrestrained by Government.
This thread has explained to some degree why we aren’t going from fission to fusion overnight, next week or fifty years from now.
There is an opportunity here. I am probably like most Americans. I don’t care what form of energy moves my car down the highway. I only care about cost and availability.
And wind and solar won’t cut it.
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