The £2.2billion superlab where scientists are creating a star on Earth

Mail Online ^ | 17th November 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Windflier]

It may look like any average building but behind closed doors could lie the answer to safe renewable energy of the future.

Here at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore California, scientists are aiming to build the world's first sustainable fusion reactor by 'creating a miniature star on Earth'.

Following a series of key experiments over the last few weeks, the £2.2 billion project has inched a little closer to its goal of igniting a workable fusion reaction by 2012.

[Windflier]

Fusion ~ the Holy Grail of nuclear research and development.

Enjoy!

[Tzimisce]

Economic downturn?

What are you talking about? We still have plenty of money. :)

[Kevmo]

Supernova Sarah Palin is already a star, and it didn’t cost $3B...

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[preacher]

later

[j.argese]

Let’s get real here, I’ve seen the footage and I’ve never seen two scientists coordinate a “High Five”. I’m not going to bet the rent on this one.

[Sherman Logan]

Physicists have been 20 years away from workable fusion power for the last 60 years.

[plinyelder]

[Young Werther]

Dr Octavios failed. So Octomom is now the point on this project.

Truth be knowm Senator/Astronaut Harrison Schmitt proposed in his book "Return to the Moon" that helium 3 is plentiful on the moon, (not available here on earth) and could fuel fusion reactors. The electricity produced would be converted to microwaves and beamed to earth where it be converted to electricity and power all of mankind!

[blackdog]

I don’t know much other than cold fusion being just two days away in that newspaper printed by Lyndon LaRouche during the 80’s. Every issue.....................

[blackdog]

Looks like the number and amount of TIG welds on whatever that vessel will have demanded more power than it will ever produce.

That is a lot of welding folks!

[dangerdoc]

As opposed to what the naysayers may say, we are only 20 years away from fusion plants. And twenty years from now, I am comfortable that I will still be right.

[Mmogamer]

I read an article awhile back, was it about “pebble reactors”?
Very safe to use, better than we we are using now but the U.S. refuses to contemplate using them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor

[SunkenCiv]

Here at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore California, scientists are aiming to build the world's first sustainable fusion reactor by 'creating a miniature star on Earth'. Following a series of key experiments over the last few weeks, the £2.2 billion project has inched a little closer to its goal of igniting a workable fusion reaction by 2012.

That's the goal now. Thirty years ago the goal was also only two years away. Thanks Windflier.

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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Windflier. Energy too cheap to meter -- that's been the mantra for years among people who thought this feasible (via at least four different methods), still bupkis. Plus, that Spanish chick who owns the Sun will probably sue.

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[SunkenCiv]

That would be a great plan, except for the microwave transmission (the downlink area would be too dangerous to enter, and would be huge, and would heat the world, and mostly wouldn’t be able to function unless the Moon were somewhere overhead), and the fact that Helium-3 still requires controlled fusion technology of some sort.

[Condor51]

Harrumph! What a mass of junk
The Cold Fusion Reactor I'm building in my garage is much smaller, and cheaper.₍₁₎

(1) Thank God for Chemistry Sets and Ace Hardware stores.

[The Comedian]

Isn't this is sort of experiment that always goes wrong and results in a first-person shooter?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Vaduz]

My no-rad release Cold Fusion Reactor in my invisible ufo is still working fine for the last two years too.

[Condor51]

*** My no-rad release Cold Fusion Reactor in my invisible ufo is still working fine for the last two years too. ***

See. With entrepreneurial guys like us who needs that silly Fermi Lab, LHC at CERN or all those National Labs we have and pay for. And we don't go begging for money from the gubmint.

Then again if our Home Owner's Insurance Companies find out, our rates just my go up a tad ;-)

[Young Werther]

Dr Gerald O"Neil the physicist from Princeton and Dr Werhner von Braun founded the National Space Society.

Dr O'Neil wrote a book at NASA's urging. It was titled "The High Frontier" and proposed the development of lunar mining colonies and satellite factories where orbital satellies would be constructed. These power satellites would collect solar energy, convert it to low intensity microwaves and transmit it to the earth where it would be converted into electricity.

large antenna farms would collect the low intensity microwaves and there would be little to no environmental impact. One of the pictures in the book show an antenna field in west Texas that is almost a sqaure mile in size. Below the antenna cattle graze and birds fly through the beam iwth NO adverse effect. In the late 80s NASA tested this by transmitting microwaves between two mountain at White Sands. the technique was proved and we need to return to the moon to and do this stuff.

Of course if you want to encourage students to study math and science, develop alternative energy sources which are GREEN and improve our economy we need to increase Space funding.

PS read the High Frontier and google O'Neil!