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Experts were able to simulate the mechanism that stabilizes plasma in fusion reactors. This development could take humankind one step closer to a clean, unlimited source of fusion energy.
So...practical commercial fusion is still 50 years way (just like it's been for the past 60 years), right?
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday July 24 2018, @12:11AM (1 child)
Terrible thing about solar, you have no electric at night. Goodbye night clubs. Goodbye casinos. Unless you build giant battery, like they did in High Tax Australia. Very expensive, folks. There's a better way. Nuclear and Beautiful Clean Coal. Great thing is, we already have the plants, they're built. They're running. Keeping our Energy Grid going around the clock -- so important. They don't shut down when the Sun goes down, so important. But so many are shutting down -- FOREVER. Because they're not making enough money. We need to stop that. And turn it around. With a subsidy for our Coal, for our Nuclear. Keep those plants running, replace the ones we lost. And make our Energy Grid great again!!!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Shire on Tuesday July 24 2018, @01:10AM
My comment was not to infer that solar is the end all be all of clean energy generation, only that our own sun is a massive fusion reactor and we tap it for power - we're using fusion energy right now.
I'm a strong proponent of nuclear, in particular Gen IV LFTR designs that are quite literally meltdown proof. I think the hysteria that surrounds nuclear has ironically resulted in massive amounts of CO2 the hippies are always howling about. Had we moved forward with nuclear and not burdened it with massive regulation, we would be in a far more energy independent situation right now.
Meanwhile China has both pebble bed and thorium test reactors operating - and we gave them the IP for it.
It also pisses me off that we can't touch most of our own rare earth deposits (essential for modern electronics) because thorium tends to be deposited there too and the NRC wont let any mining companies process it. Never mind you can't make a bomb out of it and never mind it's so weakly radioactive that if you had two atoms of it when the big bang occurred you'd probably still have both of them now.
But I digress - fusion would be great, but it's taking far too long. Lets invest in nuclear again, get that going as a nice clean stop gap energy source and then we can switch over to fusion when they get it all figured out.