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We really ought to be investing more broadly in fusion technologies. Please spread the word to scientists that they can back this recommendation if they agree.
by knappador 13y ago
We really ought to be investing more broadly in fusion technologies. Please spread the word to scientists that they can back this recommendation if they agree. http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_lyftenbloggie&view=entry&year=2013&month=09&day=23&id=105%3Aopen-letter-on-fusion&Itemid=90 http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_l...
Supporting broader funding will increase the richness of the science in the field, which gives us more angles to understand what works and what doesn't. I support funding an array of approaches instead of going all-in on ITER that seems to have no future, but I'm not a professor.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoITER seems to be the best bet that can get financed currently...
- InclinedPlane 13y agoITER is a mess. It's a stereotypical government program that will do little to advance fusion science and will take so long to build and be so expensive that it will be of questionable value even if they manage to finish it.
- rpedela 13y agoITER is crazy expensive unlike the project linked above which has spent about $1 million total. Tokamak designs have been around for decades and still have not achieved commercial viability. I think ITER is a long shot at best. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics seems to be much farther along than some of the other well-funded projects. Of course, who knows who will do it first and when. I sure don't. But we should be funding as many possible designs as we can not less.