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Environment & Energy

hunter

(38,301 posts)

7. Cheap, clean, fusion is a "be careful what you wish for" kind of thing.

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Original post)

Sun Oct 23, 2016, 06:16 PM

Oct 2016

In our modern day consumer economy we humans would eat the entire earth.

I'm somewhat happy it doesn't seem to be possible in this universe, just as faster than light travel doesn't seem possible.

Otherwise we humans would soon be extinct.

If you think fission power is bad...

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New record for fusion: Giant leap in pursuit of clean energy [View all] Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 OP

Hooray for physicists! raging moderate Oct 2016 #1

I like what the smart people are doing. NBachers Oct 2016 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author TXCritter Oct 2016 #3

Yes 2 atmospheres. Science Daily's article is a repeat of MIT News Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 #4

Paraphrased - Plasma should be several times hotter than sun and pressures higher than 2 atmospheres Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 #5

Fusion has a big, big, big materials science problem. No one has been able to sustain over a... NNadir Oct 2016 #6

Cheap, clean, fusion is a "be careful what you wish for" kind of thing. hunter Oct 2016 #7

I think we should use science to find out what it can do Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 #8

You're not a fan of uranium or thorium power? hunter Oct 2016 #9