This Nuclear Reactor Just Made Fusion Viable by 2030. Seriously.

Popular Mechanics ^ | April 8 2021 | Carolyn Delbert

[Wonder Warthog]

NOT "cold fusion", but interesting

[Wonder Warthog]

Cold fusion ping list, please

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmmn.

A private company doing something the government labs have been working since the 1940-50-60-70-80-90 ....

[wildcard_redneck]

One of the first nuclear weapons, the Little Boy Bomb used a projectile/tube explosion mechanism. The Fat Man atomic bomb used spherical implosion design.

The Little Man bomb

The Fat Man Man Bomb

There is more than one way to skin a cat and I think the little boy was a much more elegant design. here is a diagram of the fusion reactor that I did not see on Popular Mechanics:

[sphinx]

We’ll know it’s close when the enviros mobilize against it.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"The California-based company has raised $880 million in funding"

That is not even a BILLION, and the politicians are blowing through TRILLIONS every year.

We could fund cold fusion for a tiny fraction of what the politicians are spending on fake crises and payoffs to friends.

[grey_whiskers]

[rbg81]

They are looking for funding, so take it with a grain of salt.

[algore]

the problem for politicians is that if they spend a Trillion on Fusion there is still no guarantee it would work.

[UnwashedPeasant]

They could offer a $10 Billion prize to the first US company to develop working cold fusion.

People like Elon Musk would rise to the occasion.

I think there have been contests like this in the past, but I cannot remember any specifics.

[Wonder Warthog]

"the problem for politicians is that if they spend a Trillion on Fusion there is still no guarantee it would work."

THAT is true of anything and everything government does.

[Wonder Warthog]

"We could fund cold fusion for a tiny fraction of what the politicians are spending on fake crises and payoffs to friends."

I agree. IMO, one or another flavor of "LENR" will beat this design to market. I include SAFIRE in the "LENR" category.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Sounds like the same technology they have been working on at Livermore. Nothing really all that new.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Sounds like the same technology they have been working on at Livermore."

Livermore uses laser pulses to heat a solid target. Way different from this.

[FreedomPoster]

I’d hazard a guess that most of us here are old enough to know commercial fusion-generated electricity has been 20 years away for the last 50 or more years . . .

That said, I wish these guys good luck and good fortune.

[Alter Kaker]

There is more than one way to skin a cat and I think the little boy was a much more elegant design

You may think that but you’re wrong. Little Boy was crude and inefficient - and the design was never used again after an implosion style device was shown to work.

[Robert A Cook PE]

One trillion even. Tax free.

[algore]

[Wonder Warthog]

"I’d hazard a guess that most of us here are old enough to know commercial fusion-generated electricity has been 20 years away for the last 50 or more years . . ."

Well, "I" certainly am.........

[alternatives?]

I am still waiting on the miracle carburetor.