Inside The Most Expensive Science Experiment Ever (ITER Fusion)

[longship]

1. Fusion? I'm not too sure about it.

It takes so damned much energy just to get it going, no matter what the cold fusion kooks claim. It's those damned nuclear forces.

Not too promising when it takes the most expensive science experiment in history to just make a break through.

There was a lot of hope for fusion early on. But that may have been because of the unlimited power of the H-Bomb. If we could tap into that, we'd have energy too cheap to meter!!!

Not so fast, or so much.

Good luck to ITER. I wish them luck. But fusion, in spite of what Lyndon LaRouche claims, is neither easy nor cheap. Not unless you want to blow up a large city, that is. That's the only way we get out more than we put in right now.

Of course, there's always the ultimate fusion power, the Sun, conveniently at about 93,000,000 miles distance. Best yet, no need to put in anything to get it going. Just need to tap it.

Easy peasy!