Re: So what now do we do?

Jay Willingham wrote:

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> Why don't you think fusion reactors will be practical?

Several reasons:

1.) We have the ability to generate what we need with with fission reactors but
the politics stops us. If we do not have the will to do what it is possible
today, how we get the will to use fusion tomorrow.?

2.) The same politics that stops fission will undoubtedly stop fusion.

3.) There is waste from fusion just as there is from fission.

4.) current designs are monsters that are only experiments, not practical
devices.

5.) We lack the resolve to just get out and do it! Instead, all the money spent
is used in scientific experiments that are guaranteed to be dead end. to
succeed, the world needs a cogent plan which presents a road map to success.

6.) I once talked to the head of the Tokamak reactor project at MIT. I was
interested because it had been related to my dissertation. His claim at that
time (maybe 15 years ago) was that we have no practical way of extracting the
energy even if we had a reactor. I don't see that it has changed.

I would search for other approaches. I think that it will take a combination --
with no single "silver bullet".

Walt

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