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The goal of fusion research should be to provide power at very low cost with
limited proliferation risk (“Hold the Fusion Hype,” Review & Outlook, Dec. 14).
The recent results at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) were a scientific
triumph—the first experiments to achieve theoretical energy break-even in the
lab. With the goal in mind, however, I’d note that magnetic confinement fusion
(MCF) approaches, such as the JET tokamak, have already achieved
substantially better wall-plug efficiency than reported NIF results and avoid the
need to build some kind of machine gun of tiny bombs to provide continuous
power. MCF machines can already run for minutes, with an eye toward steadystate operation.
The plurality of Energy Department funding in fusion goes toward the ITER
project, an international collaboration which is likely to be the first MCF project
to achieve theoretical net energy gain (of 5x or even 10x). The ITER design,
however, is 20 years old and is still around five years away from being
completed. Given that humanity has made tremendous progress in computing,
materials science and plasma physics in that time, we should now look toward
future reactor designs that take advantage of stronger magnets, more accurate simulation and advanced control techniques to achieve more practical
economics.
The cold truth is that there is a long road from theoretical energy gain for
billionths of a second to fusion energy that costs pennies (or less) per kilowatthour. Though there is excitement in the private sector around fusion right now,
it is in the American interest to push for true energy abundance by aggressively
funding basic research in magnetic confinement fusion
12 Comments on "Nuclear Fusion Power for the People"
lolbeans on Sun, 18th Dec 2022 9:28 pm
Thanks for this information. Fusion research is a huge project.
Theedrich on Sun, 18th Dec 2022 11:34 pm
Kill millions for democratic “American interests.” To understand the full horror of the U.S., one should read at least part of Brown Universitys Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States Post-9/11 Wars, published September 21, 2020:
The United States is a cancerous malignancy on planet earth.
𝖁𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖎𝖙 𝖛𝖔𝖘.
makati1 on Mon, 19th Dec 2022 2:42 am
“The United States is a cancerous malignancy on planet earth.” Totally agree Theedrich. And the rest of the world is finally seeing behind the curtain. The sooner it cannot meddle, the better for the rest of the world.
makati1 on Mon, 19th Dec 2022 2:44 am
lolbeans, fusion is a huge money pit that supports a few hundred people at best and will never be practical. It is decades away and will never replace FFs. Dream on.
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 19th Dec 2022 10:16 am
“If guns were outlawed, how would Republicans ever win any arguments?”
Fusion?
The Sun already gives us most of our energy
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 19th Dec 2022 10:46 am
Reality sometimes slips through:
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makati1 on Mon, 19th Dec 2022 3:21 pm
With the possible exception of nuclear, the sun gives us ALL of our energy. And if you factor in the FFs needed to make fusion possible…
theluckycountry on Wed, 11th Jan 2023 7:58 pm
Fusion. It’s only 20 years in the future, and always will be.
Where did the idea come from? The Thermonuclear fusion bomb of course. The boffins figured that if they could tame fission for electricity, fusion must come next as a natural consequence.
It’s the same logic employed in the manned mission to Mars rhetoric. They have been planning/talking/developing along those lines since the 1960’s Apollo program but they are no closer to landing transgender, non-binary, or metro-sexual people on Mars than in the 1970’s
i appoint theluckycountry supertard on Wed, 11th Jan 2023 8:44 pm
his title is “the lover” of supremacist muzzies
this is my master treaties. i don’t waste time on this forum. it’s lame.
France: Muzzie spotted wearing #7 ‘Mohammed Merah’ jersey — Merah murdered seven people in 2012 jihad massacre
muzzie bribe went with isis to make babies and now want to go back. what the world going to. this is ok but supertard big muzzie beard SAWS swt pbuh is banned from UK and harrassed by AA.
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muzzie sabotage airliner and got loved 1000x in the form of reporting of “union dispute”. supertard big muzzie beard SAWS pbuh swtreported it’s actually jihad.
Then in astralia muzzie with big grin and smug looking face with a hat and meat grinder practically begged to be amputated and put on muzzie hamster wheel. cops love him 100000x more and are puzzled why he did this. i’m scratching my head too which has thinning hair
Muzzie in NZ allah acbar and went after cop with axe. Cops loved muzzie 10000x love conquer all. No tweet AOC SAWS pbuh swt , not siri Lanka, not when muzzie shot 6 cops on philadelphia. 25 billion tweet on Christchurch though
then there we deceptions of deep green, real green, deep deep green, fake fake green, and all the permutations of green. when AOC SAWS pbuh swt – (ZOMG i’m amazed at the technology in a sink food grinder) failed, the greta SAWS pbuh swt deception kicked in. I belived everything even the fantastic flying goat story.
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i made no progress sort of like banging head against concrete, concrete wins everytime
but then i “reverted” to a supremacist muzzie jerk and I’m the best of humanity allah has created. i wear a muzzie dress and i pee sitting down holding up the bathroom line. this made supertard SAWS pbuh swt have bladder infection but the love for muzzies only intensified.
and now i have superpower, big goat SAWS pbuh swt is feeling intense heat. all stops are pulled it seems – even Robert Inget the controlled libtard opposition is deployed to censor me. but uppertard SAWS pbuh swt is not going to destroy free speech for someones love of muzzie. supertard SIS SAWS pbuh swt dropped the appeal and that’s final. it’s now as good as case law. supertard SIS SIS SAWS pbuh is back being occupied with his bunker and learjet and auto keltecs and he said absolutely do not bother him. so it’s set in stone that uppertard SAWS swt pbuh is not going to modify this forum
supertards please change ur undies after 1 week
plese feel at ease among friends we’re all lover of supremacist muzzies her
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Bekenjliue on Fri, 11th Aug 2023 3:03 am
The primary aim of fusion research is to provide subway surfers abundant and cost-effective energy while minimizing the risks associated with proliferation. This goal emphasizes the need to develop fusion as a sustainable energy source that is both efficient and safe.