Posted on 05/06/2024 9:16:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
With this latest advance, I’d estimate that we are only 25 years away from fusion power.
“ With this latest advance, I’d estimate that we are only 25 years away from fusion power.”
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Maybe… but that’s what some were saying 25 years ago.
That should give the Gaia Erff loving Lefties time to “find” something, anything wrong with fusion power.
Not quite the 1.21 Gigawatts needed................
“the difference between taming a tiger in the wild versus a small kitten within your home.”
I’m not sure which way this analogy cuts.
Has anyone ever successfully trained a cat to do anything it doesn’t want to do?
Why will we never have commercially viable fusion power? Because you can’t make nuclear weapons from the byproducts. So regimes like Iran can’t say that they want “nuclear power” for their people when they REALLY want to become a “nuclear power”.
I hope commercial fusion power is developed in time to charge my electric flying car from my convenient 13,000 Amp home charger...
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Why? Why export this "innovative technique" to the
the rest of the world? Let the the rest of the world
spend their money and use their resources and time
to figure it out. America must stop being Uncle Sucker
to the rest of the world. The rest of the world is looting
the USA with the help of our caring political
establishment.
New!
You would see multiple industries collapse. Wind, solar, oil, gas, etc., along with all the political forces that are fueled by ‘saving the planet’.
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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Never saw those quotes. Right on point!!
It takes a while to harness the power of nuclear fusion, there is a lot of private money flowing into the research, I know it’s been stated forever that we are right on the verge of a breakthrough, but it never seems to happen.
However, it’s a lot of private and government money flowing into the research what would basically be an unlimited source of energy, so why not continue researching it.
If it can done for 6 minutes like this article says, then it can be done commercially at some point, maybe with technology that hasn’t even been tried yet.
tungsten melts at 6,192°F, how does it does it shed the heat?
That movie is so funny. LOL.
3,194,444 watts.
That's a little over 3 megawatts!!
That's not even a tenth of a gigawatt!
Wait I gotta find my slide rule to check that result.
Agree. That’s conventional wisdom. It will be true u til it’s not true.
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