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Fusion: only twenty years away. Always.
by arcanus 11y ago
Fusion: only twenty years away. Always.
- Numberwang 11y agoRunning desktop linux
- cornewut 11y agoJust to elaborate - this has been a popular joke among physicists for some 50 years as fusion power was promised already back then.
- dntrkv 11y agoThose estimates might have worked out if funding wasn't continuously being cut. http://i.imgur.com/FR0TsYF.png http://i.imgur.com/FR0TsYF.png
- andy_ppp 11y agoWow. We don't even spend a billion a year on Fusion research...
- madaxe_again 11y agoOf course. Nobody in power wants fusion, as most of the political class have vested interests in petrochemicals. We're all going to die in the next few decades. Such is life.
- dmckeon 11y agoAlso only eight minutes away, for the last four billion years. Gravitic containment works.
- TallGuyShort 11y agoIt would only be eight minutes away if we also had warp capability.
- deciplex 11y agodmckeon might be referring to the time needed to achieve LEO. That's how I read it.
- TallGuyShort 11y agoOh I thought it was a reference to the fact that the Sun's (about 8 light-minutes away) been doing fusion at stable rate due to it's enormous gravity this whole time. Maybe I misunderstand what is meant by gravitic containment?
- deciplex 11y agoNo I think you're right, reading it again.
- monochromatic 11y agoThe sun is eight light-minutes away.
- deciplex 11y agoYes, and? That's hardly a secret.
- monochromatic 11y agoYou seemed confused when you were talking about the time to get to LEO. I was just clarifying what I thought the "eight minutes away" comment referred to.