First, so-called Fusion Reactors do not exist. Second the magnets have to continue operating in the high flux of 14 MeV neutrons generated by the fusion reactions. Third, it is merely hypothesized that stronger magnets will make this possible, but every time someone scales up a magnetically confined fusion system to increased size, fields and confinement temperatures he discovers new plasma instabilities that disrupt the whole thing.
There are more issues.
First, so-called Fusion Reactors do not exist.
Not yet, but I have very little doubt hat eventually we will get there just as we advanced from a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) to a flat panel TV screen. Or from an early TV signal recorder which could only record at best perhaps half an hour with a tape width of maybe two inches and a price tag over $ 50K.
I am old enough to remember the early portable radios, which could give you a hernia just by carrying them around, with a hefty B + battery and miniature metal tubes.
When I was a youngster and if someone may have told us that we could take pictures electronically with a camera which could store hundreds of images and if so desired could send them to anywhere around the world via a device we call now a computer, I would have considered this person out of his mind and now we take it for granted.
Had some one at the time told us that we will have a light beam (LASER) which could cut steel and at the same time could kill you, once again this person would have been considered gone off the deep end. In other words almost anything conceivable by the human mind will eventually turn in to reality. You may want to note the stipulation “ALMOST” As there always will be certain limitation’s as well as boundaries which the laws of physics will not allow us to cross.
First, so-called Fusion Reactors do not exist.
Not yet, but I have very little doubt hat eventually we will get there just as we advanced from a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) to a flat panel TV screen. Or from an early TV signal recorder which could only record at best perhaps half an hour with a tape width of maybe two inches and a price tag over $ 50K.
I am old enough to remember the early portable radios, which could give you a hernia just by carrying them around, with a hefty B + battery and miniature metal tubes.
When I was a youngster and if someone may have told us that we could take pictures electronically with a camera which could store hundreds of images and if so desired could send them to anywhere around the world via a device we call now a computer, I would have considered this person out of his mind and now we take it for granted.
Had some one at the time told us that we will have a light beam (LASER) which could cut steel and at the same time could kill you, once again this person would have been considered gone off the deep end. In other words almost anything conceivable by the human mind will eventually turn in to reality. You may want to note the stipulation “ALMOST” As there always will be certain limitation’s as well as boundaries which the laws of physics will not allow us to cross.
Doesn’t “generating more power than they consume” sound a bit like a perpetual motion machine?
” so-called Fusion Reactors do not exist”
They do exist. You should be more familiar with logical and linguistic quantifiers (or you should not be trying to deceive us). The Sun is a fusion reactor. A silly example I agree, but you should be more careful with your language.
There are many examples of fusion reactors built by people. Thermonuclear bombs, high energy colliders, etc. They currently limited to tiny duration of operation, but they do exist.
While it is true that research in fusion reactors has appeared to be an immense money pit, it is also, potentially, the greatest wealth producing technology by several orders of magnitude. Intelligent people understand the difficulty and expense, and the potential payoff. Unintelligent people spend their time trying to influence other unintelligent people.
Be intelligent.
Thankyou for the the truth...
Truth is hard to find when propaganda science rears its ugly head when research funds begin to run out each year or so...