That’s what I heard from “Popular Science” in the 1970s…
U.S. to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’
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Yaaawwwwnnnn
An old wives tale. The oil companies have a lot more to worry about than preventing fusion and future electrical power generation. The oil companies never did purchase the "rights" to the 100mpg carburetor, as they knew no such thing was possible in the first place.
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Agreed. If true, these ideas would be public domain by now and being manufactured. Some people just want to believe.
Kestas
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Fusion energy has 10 times the damaging effect on the reactor first wall when compared with fission energy. My master's thesis 35 years ago was funded by DOE because of this.
Sarcasm Cujet.........................Sarcasm.
Just like always, as it should be.
Cynicism is fashionable this decade.
Actually, they do NOT want limitless emissions free energy...they ahve statemetns that this is the antithesis of everything that they want.Now that’s wishful thinking.
Cynicism comes from four decades of seeing the same “amazing” headline, about our progress on fusion, repeated over and over and over…
And each time, we reached a “major milestone”.
And each time it’s “only ten years away”
Yes, that is true. It's not about the environment, it's about population control and personal control, all dressed up as environmentalism.
U.S. announces nuclear fusion energy breakthrough: "One of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century"
Nuclear fusion has been considered the holy grail of energy creation that some say could save humans from extinction.
www.cbsnews.com
Net gain.
What to know about DOE’s fusion ‘breakthrough’
Experiments at a U.S. government lab may have provided "proof that the physics work." But future fusion reactors might turn to a different technology for replicating the energy that powers the sun.
www.politico.com
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Nuclear-Fusion Energy Breakthrough Reported by Scientists at U.S. Lab
The Energy Department said a controlled fusion reaction at a federal research facility produced more energy than it consumed, a milestone in transforming fusion into a practical source of clean energy.
www.wsj.com
According to the article I read it took a laser input of 2.05MJ of energy to initiate the fusion, with a gross output of 3.15MJ. That's a lot of required power start things off, and with efficiency losses the total required energy was 300MJ. So although the output from the reaction as compared to the laser input was a net gain, the total efficiency is still orders of magnitude away. Those are big numbers no matter how you look at it.
Don't forget we are only 132 years past the invention of the splinter-free toilet paper roll.
That's like 1452 dog years
Right. Dogs should have achieved interdimensional travel eons ago!
It's been spoken of as "giving a 10 year old a machine gun"...in Environmentla circles...just saying.
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