A STAR IN A BOTTLE! new energy or new catastrophe - you decide.

[Jude Iam]

https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/..._Daily%20(123)

and we've heard NOTHING ABOUT THIS.
…?

jude

[CSummer]

Sounds like a new scale-up of nuclear fusion experimentation, which has been going on for years. Perhaps one reason we haven't heard much about it is because it's of such dubious value, given that distributed forms of energy generation (e.g., solar and wind) have become so competitive and are such an abundant resource (lacking only appropriate energy storage systems, which could probably be developed for far less cost).

https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/..._Daily%20(123)

and we've heard NOTHING ABOUT THIS.
…?

jude

[podfish]

Sounds like a new scale-up of nuclear fusion experimentation, which has been going on for years.

yeah, I'm confused as to what caught your eye about this? it's another big tokamak, which despite its name isn't being built by the Inuit, but by an international consortium. Fusion has a lot fewer inherent risks than fission, and is probably about five years away -- that's been true since the early 60's. So what's the news here?

[Jude Iam]

hiya.
i was astounded cause this project is SO
complex
powerful
expensive
hopeful
unique
and i had the quote from the article to illustrate each of the above, ready to send, and wacco crashed and i don't feel like compiling again - sorry -
but that's why it 'caught my eye'. blest, jude

yeah, I'm confused as to what caught your eye about this? it's another big tokamak, which despite its name isn't being built by the Inuit, but by an international consortium. Fusion has a lot fewer inherent risks than fission, and is probably about five years away -- that's been true since the early 60's. So what's the news here?