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Controlled fusion has always been 5 to 10 years away, just as we've always been at war with Eurasia.
by mdpopescu 8y ago
Controlled fusion has always been 5 to 10 years away, just as we've always been at war with Eurasia.
- aurizon 8y agoThat is partly true,but we ave advanced to the point where the next generation of machines take 5 years or more to build. They have reached the break even and gone substantially past it, but they have not been ablt to reduce it to the turn-key appliance stage.
- pfdietz 8y agoNo fusion reactor has reached breakeven.
- losteric 8y agoAll deadlines have an implied "with equivalently aggressive funding" addendum
- BurnGpuBurn 8y agoI remember distinctly reading a popular science magazine article when I was young (it had that great plasma picture with all the plasma arcs fizzing over the floor of a giant lab) that stated that we could have fusion power plants in 25 to 50 years. That was 30 years ago.
- mdpopescu 8y agoIt seems I was indeed wrong about the deadline but not about the "forever" part, see [1] and [2]. [1] https://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/11/forever-20-years-away-will-we-ever-have-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor https://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/11/forever-20-yea... [2] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/03/23/nuclear-fusion-reactor-research/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/03/23/nuclear-fu...