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Nah. Just a very risky investment. ITER uses "safe" physics that we know how works - it's a magnificent engineering exercise, but there are no new insights in f
by tormeh 12y ago
Nah. Just a very risky investment. ITER uses "safe" physics that we know how works - it's a magnificent engineering exercise, but there are no new insights in fusion per se required. These guys seem to be aiming for an alternative solution with more eccentric science behind it. It will probably not work out, but neither does most start-ups.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoWhat is meant by eccentric science? Would you be specific?
- tormeh 12y agoWell, I don't know much about the subject, but the way I've understood it there's ITER and then there are a couple other reactor projects. Everyone except ITER is violating some kind of popularly held belief among physicists - they could be cheaper and better, but it's far from certain that they'll work at all. This just looks like another one of those.
- DennisP 12y agoI don't think it violates physicists' beliefs, it's just that they're more confident in tokamaks like ITER because they've been studied a lot more.