Posted on 12/04/2023 7:32:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
It could usher an era of limitless clean, safe and affordable energy to meet the world's demand.
Now, the 'holy grail' of power production – nuclear fusion, which makes the sun and the stars shine – has come a step closer.
Scientists have switched on JT-60SA, a £500 million fusion device measuring around 40 feet in diameter, located in Naka north of Tokyo, Japan.
JT-60SA contains swirling plasma heated up 200 million degrees Celsius (360 million degrees Fahrenheit).
This is the threshold where hydrogen atoms can begin to fuse into helium, releasing sustainable energy in the process that could put an end to fossil fuels.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Anything from the Daily Mail is globalist agitprop. Here on FR it is the Biden supporters go-to for Uke war propaganda. Most recently they have been fellating the Deep State’s founding member with their Kissinger obits. This article is an attempt to have people keep the faith a little longer on “all electric” while governments kill natural gas and coal.
You want Godzilla? Because that’s how you get Godzilla.
Beat me to it.
Just wait... once fusion reactors get figured out, they will start saying they cause global warming. “Water vapor is a worse green house gas than CO2!”
In other news, a cure for cancer is “just around the corner”.
What could possibly go wrong?
They better not lose containment or there is going to be one huge hole in the ground where Japan once was.
Yep, totally unnatural. Nothing but clean, natural dolphin in my tuna.
What could go wrong and does is that it doesn’t maintain it’s hot state and drops in temperature before you get significant energy out of it. It super hot, but with almost no mass the slightest magnetic kink allows it to cool off too much. AND if you’re using tritium you produce a lot of neutrons that degrade the material in the fusion machine.
From this drawing it looks like they would use it simply for heat to create steam?
Same with nukes. News flash: steam power has been around for a while and has its limitations. Isn’t there some new and different way of doing what we need done? This seems like an expensive high tech solution for a simple problem- boiling water. Please tell me there is more, and that we aren’t spending $billions on making hot water. It is like freaking alchemists perpetually trying to turn lead into gold when the simple solution would be to find a use for lead that makes it more valuable than gold, or create an artificial scarcity of lead and driving the price up.
Just yesterday I was recalling a conversation I had here on EVs versus Hydrogen fueled . A person said the problem with H2 is the energy required to split water isn’t really worth the cost when comparing to traditional fuels or battery I suppose.
This could be a game changer on Hydrogen powered transportation. A much more affordable way to power electrolysis could be fusion. Then modify existing gasoline infrastructure to use H2.
Just 30 years away.
Just here for the Godzilla references…
Agree that steam is 19th century. But I don’t think that fusion has electron scatter like fission does. The holy grail for fission reactions would be to convert the electrons directly into electricity.
imho when they perfect fusion energy—they’ll learn enough from managing magnetic fields to be able to turn fission produced electron scatter into electricity.
Not sure that the will be worth the trouble. If fusion is as cheap as they say it will become—then a lot of competing energy sources will go away.
The Laws of Thermodynamics will always win. You can’t get more out than you put in.
Period.
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I cannot disagree...
Theoretically, there is another “input” — the energy released by fusing Hydrogren into Helium. Example of this actually working: That big burning ball in the sky was call the sun...
>> History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of Man.
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Hey, you're not supposed to ask questions like that!
The byproduct of Helium will have us all talking like Mickey Mouse ???
Two laws have held up pretty well over the last few decades,
Moore’s Law for processor power increases,
Zeno’s Paradox regarding the arrival of practical fusion power.
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