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Its time to take fusion energy seriously
Last week, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) near the Silicon Valley in California moved a step closer to one of humanity’s most cherished goals: build a fusion reactor that can provide cheap and abundant energy to the entire planet. Scientists there got, for the first time ever, more energy than they put in to heat the fuel.
It is a tiny step towards building a commercial fusion reactor, but an important milestone considering the many failure ..
10 Comments on "Its time to take fusion energy seriously"
meld on Thu, 20th Feb 2014 12:00 pm
*slow hand clap*
kervennic on Thu, 20th Feb 2014 12:17 pm
A cover up research for nuclear weapon simulation. Try to get so much funding on an original fundamental idea after so many years of failure…
J-Gav on Thu, 20th Feb 2014 12:40 pm
It’s more like time to wait another decade and watch a few dozen more ‘major fusion breakthrough’ articles and billions more dollars flash by with no significant production results …
Davy, Hermann, MO on Thu, 20th Feb 2014 12:47 pm
Well, kinda like, making a wrong turn and sealing your fate. Too little too late, false optimism, huge waste of resources, and techno scientific salvation preaching. Even if they make a breakthrough it will never scale in a resource starved world. It is a useless distraction and a dead end.
These facilities of so called higher science and technology will be little more than ruins with cobwebs and rats soon. Roaming bands of Roma types will strip the copper out. Hopefully they will not grab the wrong thing and unleash some mutated highly species mobile virus or bacteria from the Monsanto laboratory down the road. We are talking warehouses of death at these facilities multiplied my 1000’s.
dave on Thu, 20th Feb 2014 1:44 pm
Geez, can’t we just perfect “cold fusion” and save all the time and money. That was one of the most laughable energy announcements of all time imho.
Davy, Hermann, MO on Thu, 20th Feb 2014 3:02 pm
@dave Yea, and lets make “cold fusion” even better with super conductors.
Northwest Resident on Thu, 20th Feb 2014 3:27 pm
I’m glad we have scientists working on this. I mean, why not? What else have they go to do? I found an article on Popular Mechanic where a scientist says that for $20 billion, he could build a fusion reactor that is more or less dependable, but the energy inputs to run that fusion reactor would be extreme and the output energy gain would be negligible. Maybe they’ll figure it out, given enough time and funding. But I doubt it.
Poordogabone on Fri, 21st Feb 2014 4:58 am
“Nuclear energy is the only method of providing a base load without producing carbon dioxide emissions.”
Except that we would use it to produce liquids and all the inaccessible oil . EROEI would become irrelevant and the planet would be toast.
GregT on Fri, 21st Feb 2014 6:46 am
“Its time to take fusion energy seriously”
Holy crap, is it that time again, already? I must have nodded off for a bit.
Newfie on Fri, 21st Feb 2014 7:20 am
Limitless energy from fusion is only ten years away. And it always will be.