Fusion Energy

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Del

Yes.

Avoid the rush and start grumbling about "Big Fusion" today!

Hmmm that is exactly how I was going to answer. You two beat me to it...

What is it about the way this question was asked that causes a natural inclination toward a one word answer?

Really not trying to be a smart-arse here, but the simple answer is "yes", UNLESS there is a new discovery that trumps it before, during, or after it becomes viable. Will it be like Dr. Brown's 'Mr. Fusion', the size of a blender, taking garbage as fuel? Who knows? But, as with all things, sooner or later if there is a need, and there is nothing 'better', it will happen.

Consider all the 'other things' that at one time were not 'commercially viable', which today are common.

Regards ....

I think we are a long way from commercial viable Fussion generators.

The process is still too unstable due to containment problems.

It will take some time to get a GMC with and easy Fussion converter like in Back to the future II. (Don't but iron in there :p)

It's a decade away - and has been for the last forty years.

Yes. It's only question of time.

Yes, about 50 years from now. That's been the answer ever since work on it started.

Cheers..........Codey

A reactor to produce Plutonium for the Bomb was the first practical fission application. So far, there have been no practical applications of fusion except for the obvious one of blowing up large quantities of real estate.

Gunpowder was invented in the ninth century, and was put to destructive uses almost immediately. It was another thousand years before a practical internal combustion engine came along.

This may take a while.

Nature has done it miilions of years ago.We will learn to make it sometime in future.

Meanwhile,there are other alternate sources that will become popular - wind,solar,geothermal ..So long as we have destructive tendencies it is better to keep away from such powerful sources of energy as fusion energy.This gift will be offered to us only when we are sane enough to use this energy for the benefit of mankind rather than using it as weapon of some kind.

Cowlagi

How do you think hydrogen bombs work?

Quite well, unless they are made in North Korea. Unfortunately, the initiator is rather expensive and destructive.

Ha-ha, very good! Though "quite well" depends on whether you're sending or receiving it. But I don't think the North Koreans have got as far as H-bombs yet. Good thing too.

Cheers.....Codey

The economics of sunlight harvesting, i.e. the capture of fusion energy, are already attractive in many applications. So the answer is 'yes'.

It already is. Just look up during the day.

No! Of course not and man will never fly.

It will, as soon as we can begin to harvest HE³. It produces as much energy as H-H fusion, produces negligible radiation and the plasma can be contained by electrostatic fields instead of the leaky magnetic bottle method.

Regards Dragon