www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7936284/Fusion-research-at-Iter-unlocking-the-power-of-the-sun.html


It is one of mankind's most daring experiments - a quest to produce virtually limitless clean energy that, if successful, would revolutionise life on Earth by harnessing the explosive power of the sun.
The energy problems that already beset our species, and look certain to dominate the future, would be wiped out at a stroke.

Such is the appeal of the idea that the greatest powers of the world, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, America and the nations of the European Union, have united to pursue the same stellar objective. Their aim is commercially viable nuclear fusion - deriving energy from crushing together the nuclei in atoms rather than splitting them, as is done currently in nuclear fission reactors.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER


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Why don't we just run a bigarse cable to the sun and plug it in?
...... its only 93million miles, should be a snap

our energy problems are already solved thanks to evlpanda

The Sun probably produces enough energy in 24 hours to power every single energy consuming device on Earth for about a million years.

The problem with fusion is it always seems to be about 20 years away or as the article says, about 40 years away. The article was interesting and hopefully fusion is going to happen. If there is a serious, successful effort to develop fusion power, such technology will destroy many vested interests. In a flick of the switch all the world's coal and oil companies will be worthless. Imagine owning 20 million dollars worth of ExxonMobil shares and waking up to find your shares are worth nothing?

grumplestiltskin said...

Why don't we just run a bigarse cable to the sun and plug it in?
...... its only 93million miles, should be a snap

Would probably be cheaper than the $43b NBN.....

grumplestiltskin said...

Why don't we just run a bigarse cable to the sun and plug it in?
...... its only 93million miles, should be a snap

Nah. The moon and other planets would keep bumping into it and pulling the plug out. We'd have to push the moon, Venus and Mercury out of the way first.

colinwill78 said...

grumplestiltskin said...

Why don't we just run a bigarse cable to the sun and plug it in?
...... its only 93million miles, should be a snap

we'd probably get there and find out it's plug/pin configuration is different

Here's the answer:

www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-space-elevator/3019104

easier if everyone just walked around