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Is Nuclear Fusion REALLY just around the corner?

04/28/2005 9:57 AM

With all the talk about Wind energy, Hydrogen, and the like...will we in our lifetime see the 'practical' use of 'fusion'? From what I've read and so far deduced, the practical use of hydrogen seems to be out of the question for now and for awhile -technologically, economically, and even politically.
With, yet again, another new experiment and discovery about the future use of nuclear fusion technology, will we see 'fusion' technolgy used commercially before we see hydrogen?

And how funny...the article states that fusion technology could be used for "oil well drilling."

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04/28/2005 12:24 PM

From everything I've seen, nuclear fusion "Is and always will be the technology of the future."

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Re: Is Nuclear Fusion REALLY just around the corner?

04/04/2016 9:52 AM

I have heard of lasers being used for oil well drilling (research only). Hydrogen electrolysis gas (sometimes called "Brown's Gas) apparently gets hot enough in the burn to vaporize rock, so maybe that could drill a well also. The plasma (siphoned off??) from a Tokamak would undoubtedly be hot enough to vaporize rock.

Duh, nuclear fusion basically IS hydrogen technology. It is hard to "see" hydrogen, since it is a colorless gas. If one creates a plasma containing the hydrogen, the atomic spectral lines will appear, but the visible range of this (also in hydrogen flame) is not so easy to see.

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