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2017-03-02 Science

Obumbles underfunded fusion research - but fusion (NOT solar) is the future

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Posted by anon1 2017-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Don't forget
Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor

Posted by Chuck 2017-03-02 03:22|| 2017-03-02 03:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't forget
Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor

Memory lapse will likely result in contract cost overruns.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-02 04:08|| 2017-03-02 04:08|| Front Page Top

#3 News flash.
Scientific (and technological) advances are not made by smoothly functioning teams of well adjusted people who are superb communicators and all around likable and were straight-A students. It's made by socially inept --- or straight out antisocial --- supremely egocentric loners, who prefer to spend time inside their heads pursuing their idiosyncratic interests and not giving a f*ck about what other people define as important. Nowadays people like this play computer games --- or, at best, write them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-02 05:17|| 2017-03-02 05:17|| Front Page Top

#4 wow everyone this is the one i tried to post yesterday and it disappeared - but like magic here it is!!

Posted by anon1 2017-03-02 07:47|| 2017-03-02 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 grom you're so right!!

ps: MIT have a good program for an ARC, or a mini tokomak, which they can do a lot easier than ITER because they use superconductive magnets that work at high temperatures

This talk by Zach Hartwig goes through all the different Fusion permutations and then explains why none are close except for ITER and stellerator

and mini-tokomacs

this is the great talk here, worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

basically all research is sort of stalled about 1990-ish

Posted by anon1 2017-03-02 07:50|| 2017-03-02 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 basically all research is sort of stalled about 1990-ish

And when you say all, it's not just fusion - it's everything from animal behavior to origins of the universe - because, conform or die.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-02 08:10|| 2017-03-02 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 basically all research is sort of stalled about 1990-ish

And when you say all, it's not just fusion - it's everything from animal behavior to origins of the universe - because, conform or die.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-02 08:10|| 2017-03-02 08:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Ooops. I guess I'm so mad, my hands are shaking.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-02 08:11|| 2017-03-02 08:11|| Front Page Top

#9 What happened to the Lockheed Fusion Reactor?
Short answer - work still proceeding well.

Posted by 3dc 2017-03-02 08:17|| 2017-03-02 08:17|| Front Page Top

#10 thorium fission is also 'just a decade or two away' situation

so is small modular uranium fission

only a finite amount of research $$ and a finite amount of research scientists

Posted by lord garth 2017-03-02 08:58|| 2017-03-02 08:58|| Front Page Top

#11 wow everyone this is the one i tried to post yesterday and it disappeared - but like magic here it is!!

When articles are posted after 2 p.m. ET we prefer to move them to the next day unless they are unfolding terror attacks, anon1. This is not one of those. If you want to add it to an on-going discussion, better to paste it into a comment than post as a separate article.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-03-02 10:29|| 2017-03-02 10:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Re: #3

A good example of this is when a committee got together to design a horse, they ended up way over budget and resulted in the end product being a camel.

So when I read about the Lockheed Fusion Reactor, my first thought is that it will never see the light of day. Lockheed being Lockheed, it's purely a money suck designed to bring bonuses to the board and upper management, nothing more.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-03-02 15:54|| 2017-03-02 15:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Fusion sounds too much like Fission and actual clean power means people can make bad choices instead instead of cutting back on consumption and returning to a medieval level where they can be controlled.

Spending money on green industries owned by the political connected and talking how we are doing something is much more politically satisfying.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-03-02 16:52|| 2017-03-02 16:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Fusion has already been done, to wit:

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-03-02 18:15|| 2017-03-02 18:15|| Front Page Top

#15 I think you overstate for effect, grom. I can think of a few exceptions. And some problems are so hard that you need a team, and not just in experiments.

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