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| EU states say no to more fusion money |
| 2010-07-15 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #9 or a dozen cheeseburgers We don't have the money, Frank. Besides, it would only take a couple. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-15 22:43 |
| #8 Drop the ROW and its bureaucracy and corruption. Devote 2 billion a year to this in this country. That's something like $20/taxpayer. It's 10,000 high tech jobs. Let them continue this plasma physics experiment until they solve it. It's way more useful than making movies about fishies looking for their mommies. |
| Posted by: KBK 2010-07-15 21:47 |
| #7 or a dozen cheeseburgers |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-07-15 21:29 |
| #6 North Korea already announced that it has produced a fusion reactor. I'm sure they'll share their technology in exchange for a bottle of Hennessey. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-07-15 20:24 |
| #5 I posted this for the following reasons, 1) The EU fckers made a big hue and stink and insisted it had to be in the EU so the money would go there. The other prime contender was JAPAN but the EU said their great scientists would refuse to go to Japan. 2) The second reason was because the EU fought hard so the money would subsidize their economy. Consider that a big portion of the world was involved but the EU was, in effect, colonizing the world's fusion science for their own gain.... sort of like oil for food? 3) Historically the EU has gutted most major joint efforts before completing them. (Hermes Spaceship and more anybody?) This "NO" was predictable to happen from day 1. At the time I thought we shouldn't be a part of it and should go it alone or with Japan and maybe Russia as I saw this as being a typical EU prestige rip-off from day 1. Of course I am just rube from "Fly-over country" so, IPSO FACTO, I could never have the intelligence to evaluate anything our cultural betters in Europe might be up too. I am so negative a rube... in fact a nobody who should just shut up... (Something I was told on a FT chat area by EU finance fckers) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-07-15 12:01 |
| #4 OK, so give the Iranians the money and let them develop it. They have the greatest ... everything in the world; I'm sure they could do it in a couple of years. For peaceful purposes, of course. The IAEA could supervise it. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2010-07-15 06:04 |
| #3 Because the Iranians are working on fission, not fusion. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2010-07-15 03:53 |
| #2 Why not just wait a few months and let the Iranians perfect the process? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-15 03:34 |
| #1 The original plan was to build the experiment within 10 years for $6.4 billion but many now predict the total cost will amount to $20 billion. Commercial hot fusion is way too far in the future to waste this kind of money. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-07-15 03:30 |