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I thought the stellarators were created to solve this problem.
In just 5 to 10 years from now fusion will be commercially viable ... no this time it’s different, really, we know so much more than we did the last time we predicted fusion would be ready, which was 10 years ago, or the 10 before that .... but this time we are right.
Meanwhile the cheap, safe molten-salt/thorium reactor technology which is well understood, to the point that prototypes were tested OVER TEN YEARS AGO, is ignored.
Based on this important new research, fusion is now only 20 years away.
Fusion power has been “closer to reality on Earth” for at least four decades. I guess it will continue to be closer to reality.
I vaguely remember a cool fusion movie back in 1997
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saint_(1997_film)
only reason I watched it is because I liked Vincent Price, and later Roger Moore in the TV series
We are always just a decade away from fusion, someone wake me when something actually changes… yawn
Until we find a way to make electrical energy
DIRECTLY from a nuclear reaction, we are just
using the power of the atom to boil water...
to make steam...
to turn a turbine...
to generate electrical energy.
Maybe Tesla was on to something?
And all they need is a few more trillion tax dollars for their labs.
That is especially true if Putin overreacts.
It’s still only 25 years away.
The author is biased against Ed Teller, btw. I read the book in 2008 or so, and have been listening to the unabridged audiobook in the car.
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking - Charles Seife (2008)
https://publicism.info/science/sun/index.html
https://publicism.info/science/sun/5.html