Nuclear Fusion not sure if this is a breakthrough

Tony Bev · Guru

Nuclear Fusion not sure if this is a breakthrough

rgren2 · Guru

The first flight by the Wright brothers didnt last very long either.

Whenarewethere · Guru

Gustav Weisskopf was the first.

The problem with complex centralised systems. When it breaks it causes big problems. So you will need multiple reactors for backup. A distributed system when things break, it has much smaller problems & far cheaper to backup.

Mike Harding · Guru

I worked on JET some years past and this is massive - I am not aware of any previous runs which held plasma active for anything like this length of time, if they can hold it for five seconds then, with more engineering development, they should be able to hold it indefinitely. Brilliant work guys :)

Collo · Senior Member

Hopefully, they will be able to upscale this exciting development and we may be able to save humanity after all!!

Collo.

deverall11 · Guru

Collo wrote:
Hopefully, they will be able to upscale this exciting development and we may be able to save humanity after all!!
Collo.

Maybe the village idiot can invest some money there. After all according to his BS speeches he is 'big' on investing in technology.

dorian · Guru

deverall11 wrote:
Maybe the village idiot can invest some money there. After all according to his BS speeches he is 'big' on investing in technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

https://www.iter.org/proj/Countries

"ITER is funded and run by seven member parties: China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States. The United Kingdom participates through EU's Fusion for Energy (F4E), Switzerland participates through Euratom and F4E, and the project has cooperation agreements with Australia [through the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, ANSTO in 2016], Canada, Kazakhstan and Thailand."