Fusion confusion: Sorry, We have to throw a little cold water on the recent "breakthrough" in sustainable energy

American Thinker ^ | 12/17/2022 | Mark C. Ross

[SeekAndFind]

This is roughly similar to the medieval quest for the philosophers' stone , where the serious scientists of the day were working feverishly to find the right combination of substances to make gold out of lead and achieve eternal life.

[ClearCase_guy]

Darn. Looks like we’re still 30 years away.

[BradyLS]

TANSTAAFL

[Bayard]

Getting real, nuclear is still going to be the only real cost competative “green” energy source. But people are not serious about climate change, its a false narrative.

[EEGator]

A bit off topic, but did you know the first Harry Potter film was called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the US?
Apparently they thought we were too dim witted to go see Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

[EEGator]

I was supposed to be in a flying car and sleeping with Judy Jetson by now.
Reality is crap.

[GaltAdonis]

We should probably get started building a Dyson sphere.
That probably won't take much longer than 300 years to build.

What with hauling all of the building materials in from the
asteroid belt, and all...

[A strike]

How exactly does that 2nd Law work?

-fJRoberts-

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Meanwhile LFTR (thorium) is within easy reach, but can’t get funding.

[joshua c]

oh crap

im on the waiting list for a mr fusion

and my delorean is not getting any younger

[lee martell]

This. Always. Happens!.

[drSteve78]

“I was supposed to be in a flying car and sleeping with Judy Jetson by now.”

You could be flying with a twice divorced Judy Jetson in economy section and sleeping in a car. Now that’s reality for you.

[EEGator]

LOL...

[zeestephen]

From memory...

The fusion sample released 3 megajoules of energy after being struck by 2 megajoules of laser energy.

Unfortunately, the laser equipment required 300 megajoules of energy to generate 2 megajoules of laser energy.

Just ten years away!

[MRadtke]

Yes it does. When I was in high school in the 70’s, fusion power was 20 years away. Now it's 30. Clearly, time is running backwards! :)

[ealgeone]

I was smart enough to NOT see any harry potter nonsense.

[PLMerite]

"Apparently they thought we were too dim witted to go see Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone."

[EEGator]

Yeah, it only made $7.7 billion...total nonsense.

[ealgeone]

It did. But I didn’t add to the total.

[EEGator]

Reminds me of a George Carlin bit...