Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Nuclear fusion plant (not edible)

Nuclear Fusion has the possibility of becoming the next cheap, environmentally friendly source of energy for you crazy power sucking kids. Everything I've ever read about fusion (and that's suprisingly a lot due to crazy work) indicates that this project although with a lot of cash behind it only has a break even chance of actually generating useful amounts of power. At 10Bn Euros it ain't exactly a cheap gamble but if the fusion plant does actually work as intended it could signal a rosy future for all of us.

No dangerous waste like nuclear power and no use of fossil fuels mean that this sucker could be powering your home massage chair sooner than you think. The official ITER site details a bunch of stuff about how the reactor will work and tells you a bit of history if you are interested. Its a tokomak style reactor.... mmm tokomak, what a cool word.


1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Damn Frenchies...if they ever get it working, they'll just end up surrendering to it

1:08 PM  

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