On May 27, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Horace Heffner wrote:
Yep. Looks like there is still 5 years to go: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/dnl-rpb042507.php
On May 27, 2007, at 10:51 PM, thomas malloy wrote:
I thought is was 50 years My nephew, the power company executive thinks that hot fusion research is great, but they're not spending his money!
Read the above reference I provided to support the statement. I wasn't talking about ITER. It's 5-7 years to prove the Z-pinch concept for practical energy generation, 20 years to operating plants:
"But fired repeatedly, the machine could well be the fusion machine that could form the basis of an electrical generating plant only two decades away. Progress in this arena might eventually require funding from DOE's energy arm."
"To confirm the new Z concept would take $35 million over five to seven years to build a test bed with 100 cavities. If successful, future generations of Z-like facilities would be constructed with LTDs."
The $35 million is nothing these days. Lots of energy companies capitalize in the billions. The only thing that might hold this up is political (e.g. oil lobby) resistance. If some entrepreneur were smart enough he'd do this on private capital, even if it cost 10 times the price.
Regards, Horace Heffner
