On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 06:50:46 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 22:10:07 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
My hopes are with fusion. Specifically ITER. My research is on
diagnostics/data analysis for tokamaks, working with the guys
at Culham, UK (MAST and JET). They are cautiously optimistic.
When you read about fusion energy, you *can't* not be
optimistic about it. At times though, it feels like its *such*
a technological and *financial* hurdle, that the question is
more like "Will we have mastered this technology before gas
prices get so high a global recession will prevent us from ever
financing the research?"
When I say they are cautiosly optimistic, I mean that they are
optimistic that ITER will be the last big pre-prototype Tokamak.
Next step prototype powerplant.
