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.
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Then Electric everything ? LOL
What could possibly go wrong?
This tech may actually be close to viability. My only question is how are the Climate Change Cultists going to object to it. You know they will. Why? Because the cult has nothing to do with climate. It’s goal is Marxism and the destruction of Western civilization. Period.
History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of Man.
Coming April 12, 2024.......................
Great minds think alike.
Better keep a Fire extinguisher handy.............
How much energy does it take to heat the hydrogen to 300M degrees? What is the break-even point of energy in v. energy out?
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/12/174018.html
LPP Fusion could actually bring about practical small scale aneutronic fusion. Soon.
...and I thought those Teslas burned hot.
One would think that the Japanese would be particularly wary of anything involving atoms at 200 million degrees.
They’re a weenie roast by comparison.
It’s only 50 years away now.
Without this discovery, we would have had to wait for 50 years for fusion.
“£500 million fusion device”
Wow, that is cheap. I would like to see Elon Musk make these and take over the power grid.
I guess the climate alarmists can retire now.
Is it earthquake hardened?
Because I like my tuna sandwich without radioactive isotopes.
Fusion is always about 20 years away from actually producing commercial power. It’s not anywhere close to practicality. I read that you have to get about eight times the energy out that you put in the plasma to break even to account for all of the energy used by the magnets, the cooling machinery, the transformer losses, etc. and then there’s the amortization of the capital costs. I’m beginning to think that fusion energy is just a form of welfare for engineers and physicists.
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