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Someone should! My money is still on the General Fusion [1] folks (inertial confinement) to come up with something before or around when ITER gets online. They
by andymoe 13y ago
Someone should! My money is still on the General Fusion [1] folks (inertial confinement) to come up with something before or around when ITER gets online. They at least have a hope of being able to build functional power plants that don't cost billions if they can crack it. Jeff Bezos has invested a bit of money in the project.
[1]http://www.generalfusion.com http://www.generalfusion.com <- they reworked their site!
- o0-0o 13y agoI'm not sure if you get The New Yorker, but there is a fantastic long form read on ITER in the current issue[1]. Reading it you can't help but think their effort was doomed from the start. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_khatchadourian http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_...
- andymoe 13y agoThanks for that! Looks like a great read.
- rpedela 13y agoMy favorite is Lawrenceville Plasma Physics [1] or more generally dense plasma focus fusion [2]. But really I just want someone to do it yesterday. I do have serious doubts that the billion dollar projects will ever be economical even if they work. [1] http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/ http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_plasma_focus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_plasma_focus