budda10000 (July 16, 2008 at 12:14 am)

i dont know, it might be kind of nice not having to worry about energy anymore.

Zalariz (July 15, 2008 at 6:49 pm)

Power beyond human imagination is a disaster!

FogerRox (July 11, 2008 at 1:23 am)

I wanna see PB-11 fusion. :-)

VAUS82 (July 10, 2008 at 11:38 pm)

Its an engineering issue - we have no problem creating fusion power, we just need to find a way to harness and apply it. I assume all physicists currently working on tokamaks are familiar with the work of ppl like H & B, and are not convinced its impossible. - Maybe H&B just couldn't make it work themselves?

calimann83 (June 29, 2008 at 9:26 pm)

Yeah, I did a Paper an Nucular Power plants. they are actually very safe. what happened in russia was dew to poor safty percations. 3 mile island is often sited as being a reason why its un safe, but it should be an example of how safe it is. the melt down a 3 mile was stopped because of proper safty. people just hear the word nucular and freak out.

FogerRox (June 29, 2008 at 3:46 am)

I doubt Tokamaks will work for power generation. Hirsh & Bussard started the US Tokamak program 40 years ago, 15 years ago they decided it wont work.

iwatchmassvideo (June 21, 2008 at 6:05 am)

If they create the Sun for power, then what is going to happen when it turns night-time..?

UltraGorillaz (June 12, 2008 at 9:46 pm)

questioning the knowledge of scientists is a bad idea

soylentgreenb (June 9, 2008 at 10:39 am)

Fusion is not millions of times more efficient than fission; that is nonsense. Per nucleon it releases about 4 times more energy.

soylentgreenb (June 9, 2008 at 10:38 am)

The fuel is deuterium and tritium(derived from lithium). Reserves of lithium are not inexhaustable, but then, even fears of running out of uranium are a red herring from anti-nuclear activists; it will last for millenia. Other fuels are possible but more difficult, D-D fusion being the low hanging fruit. I happen to live near a nuclear plant and I wouldn't describe the experience as anything sinister. The "waste" is not green goo, it's a radioactive ceramic and I think safe storage is trivial.