I was actually surprised to hear about this...I thought the Europeans were the ones focused on Fusion. At least in the last decade or so.
Granny says dey gonna end up blowin' up the world... Scientists Cite Advances in Controlled Fusion Research February 13, 2014
This team in Livermore is about the only US group researching the question. When someone mentioned it in passing, I assumed it was these guys. Boy I hope they have cracked it - exciting stuff, thanks for sharing
We've been at it for a while. Fusion is an industry now. I believe they use it to make medical isotopes. Now that they have demonstrated net output, we might see investment to scale in order to recover laser cost. Hopefully, we'll see the project replicated a few times around the country and one of the labs will get us the result we need. I'm glad they figured this out. On another note, I'm starting to wonder if humans are actually capable of making whatever they imagine happen. It's very possible that we 'cannot' imagine impossibilities in our universe, so everything we imagine is possible somewhere somehow. Just an idea.
Maybe you're already aware of this experimental fusion reactor being built in France: http://www.ask.com/wiki/ITER?o=2800&qsrc=999&ad=doubleDown&an=apn&ap=ask.com
it will never get to that scale in the U.S. to many entrenched business with their own interest will have a say in what we do.
While they play with their fusion projects, the USA & others poisoned the Pacific Ocean with radioactive debris from Fuku Shima. First, a careful reading of an official report from the World Nuclear Association reveals that the tsunami did not flood the generators. There was another cause for their malfunction. Second, three of the nine cooling systems needed no electricity. They used steam power from the reactor cores. They were the real emergency systems. Swamped generators would therefore have been irrelevant. Third, these three passive systems kicked in at Reactors 1 and 3. Then the valves that fed them steam were shut. This required a command. It was a deliberate act. Who, or what, shut those valves? The most likely answer points to Dimona, Israel's "nuclear research" center. ENTER STUXNET Israeli security firm Magna BSP landed a security contract at Fukushima Daiichi shortly after Japan offered to enrich uranium for Iran. Soon after Magna BSP arrived, cybersecurity giant Symantec reported that the Stuxnet virus had infiltrated thousands of computers in Japan. This is significant because Stuxnet is an Israeli invention. Magna BSP, an Israeli firm, had no previous history outside of contracts with Dimona, where the Stuxnet virus was born. Stuxnet works by disrupting industrial hydraulics, the pipes and valves that drove Fukushima's cooling systems. Stuxnet runs amok while sending normal readings to the engineers at their control stations. Israel is documented to have used this virus to damage centrifuges at a nuclear facility in Iran. The cooling systems at Fukushima were controlled by Siemens software, which the Stuxnet virus was designed specifically to attack. Stuxnet can be administrated via the kind of data link that Magna BSP installed before scramming back to Israel just prior to the disaster. As a hypothesis, Stuxnet explains why the generators failed. It explains how the valves in the passive cooling systems got shut. It explains why engineers are still getting containment pressure readings from Reactor 3, even though the containment is no longer there, and it explains a lot of other things as well. If you want to debunk the Stuxnet hypothesis, you're going to have your work cut out for you. If Stuxnet was a duck, then everything about what happened at Fukushima would be quacking like one. - See more at: http://www.henrymakow.com/fukushima_-_what_really_happen.html#sthash.chkIAzZK.dpuf
lol WTF Not only did you go from fusion to Israel in 5 posts but managed to blame them for Fukushima in the process. Impressive troll is impressive
Well, if we cannot be trusted with current nuclear reactors, per Fukushima and Chernobyl, how can we be trusted with fusion reactors? Were the Israelis and their stuxnet virus in charge of Fukushima before the reactors blew? If they were, why are they not being blamed.......at least tenatively until the whole story is known?
Great news. Warms my heart that it's a US lab. Our shoddy tiered education system and defunding of research is increasingly turning us into a backwater of impoverished idiots. Maybe this will light a fire under the asses of our politicians to do something about it while there is still something left to salvage.
Yes, US lab. With growing number of researchers from China, Russia, India. Younger generation of researchers is mostly from China, Russia, India.
It truly is good news. If they can prove up and scale up this technology the world will be a changed place. No more need for hydrocarbons, coal, damming rivers and dirty nuclear reactors for energy. No more money from oil into the coffers of Middle eastern countries to fuel Islamic extremism.
