Laser Fusion Reactor to start full power tests in 2010..

[MANT!]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/222792https://lasers.llnl.gov/newsroom/in_the_news/

Maybe this means I'm an optimist. Or even a sucker; a fool. All I know is that when I meet Moses, the 60-year-old scientist who runs this place, and he shows me a tiny pellet, about the size of the multivitamin I take every morning, and swears it will provide an endless supply of safe, clean energy, I want to believe him. It seems so ridiculously simple, so utterly doable. The pellet Moses holds is a model, but the real version will contain a few milligrams of deuterium and tritium, isotopes of hydrogen that can be extracted from water. If you blast the pellet with a powerful laser, you can create a reaction like the one that takes place at the center of the sun. Harness that reaction, and you've created a star on earth, and with the heat from that star you can generate electricity without creating any pollution. Forget about nuke plants, coal, oil, or wind and solar. "This is the real solar power," says Moses.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june09/fusion_03-17.html

 

[Zachary Smith]

Fusion is just a matter of time and money. I honestly believe if we'd invested the same amount of money into fusion research as we spent on the two Gulf Wars, we'd have it by now.

 

[ProtoAvatar]

Fusion is just a matter of time and money. I honestly believe if we'd invested the same amount of money into fusion research as we spent on the two Gulf Wars, we'd have it by now.

Woulds and coulds...If only they mattered, at least a little...

 

[Traveller]

Oh, how I hope it will work!

 

[Zachary Smith]

Fusion is just a matter of time and money. I honestly believe if we'd invested the same amount of money into fusion research as we spent on the two Gulf Wars, we'd have it by now.

Woulds and coulds...If only they mattered, at least a little...

The operative and important fact being that the reality of whether the development of sustainable positive fusion can be done is NOT dependent upon WHEN we do. Only that it be done.