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Surely not they haven't made a fusion reactor work yet
Just goes to show farmyard engineering cures all woes
Cool.
None of the people quoted are suggesting being ready for commercial applications for much longer than 5 years, but it sounds like they're making real progress.
If this technology does come online in the next decade or 2 it could be just the get out of jail free card that the planet and human kind needs.
Sure, we'll still go to war because that's what we do...but not over oil at least and the "free" electricity could transform greenhouse emissions.
Fingers crossed.
Will it be available for all mankind or just those rich enough to afford the reactors?
I’d suggest that this tech will be prohibitively expensive for those areas of the world that most need it/benefit from it.
^^ You do have a point there mate. Perhaps in some mad moment of communal responsibility we help the tech roll out world wide asap for the greater good?
But yeah, you do have to worry humans will still put profit over the environment/ humanity.
Fusion has been "30 years away" for all my lifetime.
I believe research should be continuing as potentially its cleanish energy - better than anything we have now probably but given the technical difficulties I very much doubt it will come on line for useful energy production this century.
We need a complete technical breakthru for this to work not just incremental improvements
Yippy, wont need to buy diesel for the old Massey Ferguson before long then!
TJ, given what JET have achieved so far the expectation is that it will scale up and ITER will deliver the promised 1+ Q factor.
Been promised for a long time. It's worth the effort but even the most optimistic predictions are still decades away from something that is commercially viable
ITER is being built to prove commercial viability, before construction delays they were projecting 2035 for full power operation (500MW) with another ten years of further operation. So effectively 2035 +n to prove the concept with further operating time to refine fuel route, maintenance etc.