Do you think nuclear fusion power will ever become a reality?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ May 23 2006, 11:31 AM) [snapback]259810[/snapback]</div>

Any particular reason for feeling so confident of that?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ May 23 2006, 09:32 AM) [snapback]259689[/snapback]</div>

Where did you get that information ? It is working now (!) The progress they have made on this in the last 20 years beats that which has been made, for example, in the area of integrated electronic circuits. There were a few stagnations in the past and some break-throughs were required to get to the point they are now. And it is still experimental...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ May 23 2006, 08:49 PM) [snapback]260126[/snapback]</div>

Didn't you see "Back to the Future"? "Mr. Fusion". Hellooooo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Fusion

I expect that the next car I buy will give me the option of a Mr. Fusion or a Zero-Point Module as a power source.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kathleen2 @ May 23 2006, 11:49 PM) [snapback]260125[/snapback]</div>

Hey everybody, I've figured out a way to control the thermonuclear plasma! ..........MR. FUSION!!!

I simply hook up the flux capacitor to my boron control rod assembly, attach my startup rate meter, connect the A/D converter to the salient poles of my field windings and voila! Cold Fusion.

Turns out NNPS was good for something after all.

Che

 

The answer is YES. Dr Robert Brussard has been working on electric confinement fusion reactor (IEC) all the he lacks in funding (He is trying to aviod gov't money) Check out their site

http://www.emc2fusion.org/

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kathleen2 @ May 23 2006, 11:49 PM) [snapback]260125[/snapback]</div>

Well you can, but it takes a darned big meter and you can only do it at night or it will burn up.

Tom

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ May 18 2006, 03:18 PM) [snapback]257663[/snapback]</div>

Because of energy companies that don't want to stop the status quo.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ May 23 2006, 07:32 AM) [snapback]259689[/snapback]</div>

That is changing:

From http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/116/next-innovation.html