Nuclear fusion is getting closer

BlueFox
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At 72 I hope I am around when it finally works.

"It is here, in the tiny commune of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, that 35 countries have come together to try and master nuclear fusion, a process that occurs naturally in the sun — and all stars — but is painfully difficult to replicate on Earth.

Fusion promises a virtually limitless form of energy that, unlike fossil fuels, emits zero greenhouse gases and, unlike the nuclear fission power used today, produces no long-life radioactive waste."

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/05/world/iter-nuclear-fusion-climate-intl-cnnphotos/
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,602
    Let's hope they don't light off the whole planet.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,958
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Smart people need to figure out something before oil runs out or becomes prohibitively expensive or life is going to become drastically different.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,958
    "They" have been predicting we will run out of oil in 50 years
    since the 1950's...
    Now it is somewhere between 2060's-2090's.
    I'm not concerned.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    I'm not worried either but it is a real issue.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    BlueFox wrote: »
    At 72 I hope I am around when it finally works.

    https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/05/world/iter-nuclear-fusion-climate-intl-cnnphotos/

    Probably about the same time as Santa Claus and his eight tiny reindeer fly out your arse. Though it is an awesome pipe dream to hope for, in reality we will have run out of crude oil and killed one another off long before this could ever become a practical source of electricity.
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    edited May 2022
    So to solve global warming we’re creating a second sun here on Earth. Seems logical.
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,786
    Smart people need to figure out something before oil runs out

    Your lucky day, I gotcha covered ! 👍
    The "All oil comes from dead dinosaurs" isn't all it's cracked up to be.

    http://viewzone.com/abioticoilx.html

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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    Smart people need to figure out something before oil runs out

    Your lucky day, I gotcha covered ! 👍
    The "All oil comes from dead dinosaurs" isn't all it's cracked up to be.

    http://viewzone.com/abioticoilx.html

    I'm too dumb to know or pretend to know the truth but hopefully that is.
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    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,895
    oil's mostly from long, long dead plant matter, not dinos. :#

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    Fusion is our only hope for a sustainable and clean future that includes things like heating, A/C, running water, electricity -- stuff like that.
    There's a lot of hub-bub about small fusion reactors that are ostensibly close to practicality. Lots of VC money went into several start-ups. One is minutes from our old hometown (Harvard) in the erstwhile Fort Devens.
    I am a little skeptical of these firebrand startups (imagine that?!) but maybe they know something the Big Physics tokamak tech bros didn't.

    We'll see...



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  • Gardenstater
    Gardenstater Posts: 4,502
    The abiotic oil theories must be true in my opinion. How else could it be found so deep down in such great quantities and even below non-permeable rock layers?
    George / NJ

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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    And then there's that... :(

    https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-fusion-is-already-facing-a-fuel-crisis/
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,647
    edited June 2022
    What a waste of $25 BILLION!!!
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    Drop in the bucket compared to the subsidies energy corporations have received the last 10-15 years for wind farms that are now worn out and need repowered.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    A 2020 report by IRENA9 tracked some $634 billion in energy-sector subsidies in 2020, and found that around 70% went to fossil fuels. Only 20% went to renewable power generation, 6% to biofuels and just over 3% to nuclear.Oct 20, 2021
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  • invalid
    invalid Posts: 1,372
    Maybe, but look at the long list of products produced from fossil fuels, can't say that about renewables.
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