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“The big experiments have been funded for decades, so there's little chance they won't meet their milestones,” says John Slough, a plasma physicist at the Unive
by jobu 12y ago
“The big experiments have been funded for decades, so there's little chance they won't meet their milestones,” says John Slough, a plasma physicist at the University of Washington. “If they start funding these alternatives, all the uncertainties come back.”
When I read that line it made me wonder what solar/wind energy scientists think about funding any fusion research.
- orbifold 12y agoUnlike fusion, neither solar nor wind energy scientists have any really hard problems to solve. Engineering problems sure, bot not scientific problems. Fusion research is about creating a stable ministar on earth, since normally stars are self-gravitating and in vacuum, this turns out to be a rather hard problem. The basic principle behind solar power is understood since 1905 and wind mills have been used since forever.