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The important word in the article is "experiment": As of now, most of the cost estimates and even the viability of this new type of fusion reactor are based on
by ThePhysicist 12y ago
The important word in the article is "experiment": As of now, most of the cost estimates and even the viability of this new type of fusion reactor are based on calculations only. It's of course great that new types of reactors get researched, it's just a pity that the press always seems to overreact and sell these experiments as production-ready systems to the world. This is probably the main cause for the public skepticism towards fusion energy: Too often early prototypes have been sold as working reactors.
BTW, there have been numerous proposed improvements over the Tokamak reactor type over the years, such as the "Stellarator" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator), most of them have proven too complex to be of practical use though.
- ommunist 12y agoYeah, mankind will feed from simple Soviet designs that just works for decades. Tokamak is a just a fascinating example. Think lasers for example -- the USSR tech of the 60-es ;-)
- DonHopkins 12y agoAll that fascinating technology, yet they're still afraid of gay people.
- 1971genocide 12y agowhat ? Gay marriage is still not legalized in most of the united states. and gay in russia means paedophiles included, its something putin has conjured up. Saying Russians are scared of gays is like saying americans are all fat and lazy.
- DonHopkins 12y agoYou facts are wrong, and even if you were right, your argument doesn't hold any water.
- ommunist 12y agoThey are not afraid, and never was. In the USSR gays were criminalized and put to jail. There was no same punishment for lesbians, surprisingly. However, we are talking about TOKAMAKs and LASERs here.
- dredmorbius 12y agoI ran across the Stellarator concept a few weeks back. Just on the basis of the name alone, it's awesome. Not that that makes me think it's any more likely to work....