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ITER Fusion Reactor to Postpone Basic Physics Research
In light of construction delays of the first fusion reactor being designed to generate self-sustaining reactions, a committee has decided to postpone some basic physics research and other studies considered non-essential to the project’s target, Nature.com reports.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is being built in southern France to test the so-called tokamak method in which deuterium and tritium, two hydrogen isotopes, are heated to millions of degrees to form hot plasma; magnetic fields are then used to confine the plasma and produce energy from fusion reactions.
Fusion involves mashing atomic nuclei (the protons and neutrons of atoms) together with such force they fuse to form heavier elements and release energy. It’s the same power source fueling the sun.
“The meeting is the start of a yearlong review by ITER to try to keep the experiment on track to generate 500 MW [megawatts] of power from an input of 50 MW by 2028,” Nature reports, referring to the plans discussed this week at a meeting of ITER’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee.
12 Comments on "ITER Fusion Reactor to Postpone Basic Physics Research"
BillT on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 2:25 am
Not even worth commenting on.
mike on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 6:26 am
Shocker! just 30 more years!
DC on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 6:32 am
Fusion! The power source of the future!
J-Gav on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 9:46 am
Don’t whether to laugh or cry …
Arthur on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 11:44 am
““The meeting is the start of a yearlong review by ITER to try to keep the experiment on track to generate 500 MW [megawatts] of power from an input of 50 MW by 2028,””
That’s an EROEI of 10… and a promise. Thin film solar cells already achieve 19-38.
I see a great potential for saving money, by dumping this project. But the governments supporting this project secretly hope that this highly centralized source of energy might work so they can cement their state run bureaucracies.
steveo on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 12:09 pm
“I see a great potential for saving money, by dumping this project.”
Amen. Spend the money on battery research.
Poordogabone on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 4:23 pm
Fusion! The power source of the future!…
… and will always be, thank god.
If not we’re fried.
mike on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 4:25 pm
Arthur your like one of those evangelicals whose only solution to any problem is MORE GOD!. If only people would just listen to you and your righteous message then we could all have infinite growth and happiness. Solar industry is going down I’m afraid, and not because people just didn’t believe but because it isn’t viable without fossil fuel inputs. And Please don’t post ANOTHER link showing us how some country has covered their entire farm land in solar panels so people can play temple run rather than eat. It’s called a bubble Arthur and it’s ripe for popping.
Carl on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 5:16 pm
Nuclear fusion is a good investment, probably the best way to go to another star still in our lifetime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zh9abFF3ZE
Arthur on Wed, 16th Oct 2013 6:49 pm
“If only people would just listen to you and your righteous message then we could all have infinite growth”
Were do you get the idea that I think that infinite growth is possible or even desirable? You are putting words in my mouth.
“And Please don’t post ANOTHER link showing us how some country has covered their entire farm land in solar panels so people can play temple run rather than eat.”
What is the problem with that, apart that it undermines your nihilistic end times assertions that there is no way out of our energy problems?
You write your posts, I write mine, OK?
“It’s called a bubble Arthur and it’s ripe for popping.”
It is not a bubble, just the next stage of development after coal in the 19th and oil in the 20th century.
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