The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
Posted on 08/29/2020 5:13:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The last thing they want is abundant, clean energy which would enable prosperity for the masses.
They envision a life of poverty and dependence for you, me and everyone else.
Thought it was done already. I saw it as a home device in a movie somewhere.
I believe that IF we found a way to create abundant, clean energy in a way that didn’t require massive facilities, it would be suppressed for safety.
Imagine a world where you had the power of fusion in a coffee grinder like in back to the future. Terrorists would be able to create massive energy bursts anywhere, any time.
Not long ago there was a great but lengthy article by an experienced nuclear physicist who had years in fusion research PROVING conclusively why fusion would never work in the real world.
The energy requirements/demand just to start the process - let alone maintain it - are beyond imagination, and cost.
Let me know if you want me to find it and post it.
If liquid sodium is good enough for cooling fission reactors, with water on the other side of a metal pipe, we might as well use lithium for fusion reactors.
A lot of silly comments re. Fusion Energy. I take a contrary view of it and show an analogy.
Through most of maritime history, ocean navigators could not determine exactly where they were. It was first by dead reckoning then later they could use something as simple as a knotted string on a stick to measure the angle of the sun to the horizon at local noon. This meant they could sail a constant latitude line from point A to point B as long as both points had a knot on their string. Longitude was impossible to measure except for infrequent fixes via a solar or lunar eclipse.
This void in ability was not really solved until about the 1700s, a functional chronometer grade clock was developed that was accurate and durable enough for shipboard use. One of these days, a controllable and practical fusion reactor will be developed.
More models as science.
Yes models are useful tools but models only make PREDICTIONS. If you are a fan of the scientific method, this is only the equivalent of a hypothesis. In other words .... it is NOT a breakthrough. To qualify as a breakthrough, the prediction has to be verified by real world observable evidence.
Understand that I am not lamenting the model. What I am complaining about is that what now passes for science is just conjecture, speculation and prediction, not actual provable and repeatable outcomes.
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Didn’t Tesla perfect this tech in the early 1900’s?
PPPL?
Is that still Princeton the primary Tokamak researcher?
I’ll bet Lyndon Larouche is dancing in his grave over the news.
This is Hu. And prolly Series, as well.
They had me a Donut shaped...
All I want to know is what happened to ‘Cold Fusion’ that ‘Mr. Cold Fusion Guy’ was hyping non stop here?
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