[Closed] The Energy Crisis is Over.

They're not building a star in my back yard.

Raymond Baxter, Tomorrows World - sometime in the 1960's - "[i]Nuclear power will be so cheap it won't even be worth metering[/i]"

"scientists have been unable to get even a single watt of fusion electricity onto the grid."

Nu-uh

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If only we could harness the unlimited hot air that is continually expelled from Woppit

If only MrNutt would stick his attack up his rear end. Oh, hang on. It's too tight even for that. 👿

Woppit finds it hard to believe that nobody else finds this stuff inspirational. How dreary.

We're all stars in the eye of Jesus.....

I'm generating electricity from nuclear fusion.

I like it. But I worry that it's pursuing a holy grail and taking vast funds that could be used to develop intermediate energy solutions.

Don't do it! Spiderman isn't real to stop him from blowing the world up!

I like it. But I worry that it's pursuing a holy grail and taking vast funds that could be used to develop intermediate energy solutions.

Will you worry for me, I cant be bovvered.

Cheers

taking vast funds that could be used to develop intermediate energy solutions.

Intermediate to what, precisely? If we don't crack fusion sooner or later, we either stop using a large % of the energy we currently do gradually, or with a big bang.

Just wait a few years and we can pay Iran to do it for us! 😉

The Energy Crisis is Over.

i know, but few people want to listen.

it seems that it's much more fun to worry and wail about our impending doom.

Aquatic bike pump cranks out electricity...

http://news.discovery.com/tech/aquatic-bike-pump-cranks-out-electricity-120123.html

Kev

A very enjoyable documentary - as is everything Brian Cox does.

Thanks for sharing.

But I worry that it's pursuing a holy grail and taking vast funds that could be used to develop intermediate energy solutions.

But its not vast and certainly not vast compared to the size of the market. Like Cox said in the programme Britain spends more on ring tones than it does on nuclear fusion.

It ain't over till it's over.

And at the moment, it's not over. Fusion definitely looks promising but it doesn't actually exist yet, and the energy crisis isn't over until it does.

The energy chrisis won't be over until we stop using energy at such ridiculous levels.

Or find replacements for fossil fuels. I like that solution rather than turning the clock back 100 years

"Like Cox said in the programme Britain spends more on ring tones than it does on nuclear fusion."

Yes it's sad but not untypical. The Govt would rather spend billions on building another MOX plant; the last one also cost billions and produced almost no usable fuel [shrugs]. But clearly everyone else is spending much much more on fusion that the UK. Those facilities Brian was visiting cost £££££££££, and they were not paid for by charity.

There are other fission solutions using more available and safer raw materials. They were successfully prototyped in the 60s, but never commercialised. If they had been, we would have had that technology available since the mid 1980's.

IMO, if you want to get the British more interested in our energy future than ringtones, you have to have some regular blackouts. Folks will soon get interested when they can't watch football, come dine with me or play on their XBox.

ITER will cost Euro 15 billion to build over 8 years of which 45% or Euro 6.75 billion will come from the EU so 0.85 billion per year. The EU common fisheries policy costs about 0.63 billion per year. Britain's contribution to ITER- £20M per year! How the other consortium members let us get away with such a small contribution is amazing but if we get access to the technology it'll be the best £20M per year we've ever spent.

Britain spends more on ring tones than it does on nuclear fusion.

That's a great quote but it doesn't really say anything does it?

It's not as if the Government is buying all the ringtones (at least I hope not).

Perhaps we can persuade teenage girls to buy a share in our nuclear fusion future rather than another crazy frog tone.