From: Iain Strachan (iain.strachan.asa@ntlworld.com)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 14:03:16 EDT
Meant to send this to the list as well ...
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From: "Iain Strachan" <iain.strachan.asa@ntlworld.com>
To: "Jay Willingham" <jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: the hydrogen economy
>
>
> > This is not the only program, is it?
> >
> > Jay
> >
>
> You can get a very good overview of ITER at http://www.iter.org
>
> There is a narrated page "View the ITER story". It states that the first
> plasma shot in ITER can be expected at the end of the year 2013. It will
be
> several years after that that anything other than a pure hydrogen plasma
can
> be expected to take place.
>
> I hope this will give some realistic idea of the kind of timescales
> involved. As far as I know, this is the most advanced Tokamak program,
and
> is the nearest to delivering the goods. The international participants
are
> Europe, Japan and Canada, and Russia. No longer the USA, despite the fact
> it was Reagan and Gorbachev who initially supported the program.
>
> Perhaps you guys should get lobbying your politicians!
>
> Iain.
>
>
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