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[Psymon]

Mr Fluff. Did you see horizon last night. That was fascinating - Nuclear Fusion. Free energy for all is here in 10-30 years.

Yeah I left the 64 in 87. However I had dabbled long enough to form a rather large fan club in europe. Mad, I know...

 

[malcolm]

That's what they said 10 to 30 years ago

Didn't spot the program, but there's a Europe-wide research project (ITER) on the go that hopes to build a reactor that will the first to put out more more energy than went in getting it going. Very much research just now, so liable to take a fair bit of time, but very interesting stuff.

 

[Omniata]

It's tagged onto CERN from what I can remember, using the particle accelerator to get things going...

It's a venture now including Japan and as completion closes in another identical one will begin construction over there...

 

[irondarren]

Problems they have had with prior fusion attempts it takes around 4 mega watts to enough power out to run a light bulb.
A H bomb is a fusion bomb, which basically takes a nuclear bomb to get a fusion reaction going, as well as lots of deuterium (hydrogen with a neutron), and a tritium (hydrogen with 2 neutrons) party pack to act as a catalyst. Personally i think it will be a long time before we see cheap and safe fusion power.

 

[madkayaker]

watched that as well fascinating