ITER, IAEA sign deal to move nuclear fusion research forward

If only that 20 year wait time would ever get shorter...

The DOE is going about researching nuclear fusion in the worst way possible. They waste a lot of money on programs that provide no new data and they are closed to other ideas no matter how meritorious they are. They have not really committed themselves to making practical fusion reactors.

you can no more fuse 2 atoms to make third than combine 2 cubes to make a third cube. Fermat knew.

do you really think they will roll out a working fusion reactor while there is still a lot of oil to be sold to the world, think again... people shops and even goverments will always try and make the most money they can from selling you one product before moving onto a "new and improved", "already existing" product. the same for energy technology, why move on while there is still trillions to be made. its fuc@#%up, i know!

Eco - YES
Fusion would create a whole new industry which means lots of jobs. Not to mention that there will still be a hell of a lot of cars needing gas. And what civilized government doesn't want to see the mid-east's stranglehold evaporate!!

Yes indeed. And who's 'they'? The other "they"'s will be in a position to compete in the energy market once oil becomes harder and more expensive to extract.

Ant: you can no more fuse 2 atoms to make third than combine 2 cubes to make a third cube. Fermat knew.

Atoms are not cubes. What powers the sun for billions of years? Rearrangement of energy; e=mc^2.

Hi Noumenon
who said they were? if our universe has a background 3D matrix/lattice its likely that all the sub particles of an atom are maintained in their relative positions by the holes in that matrix which leads me to suggest the possibility that the atom is held by its parts in a cubic section of that matix and one would have to allow for the combing of multiple sections of the matrix to acheive the next largest cube in fact to acheive a combined fusion it would take a minimum of 8 atoms to form the next size cube. Therefore I would suggest that the sun's process is far more involved than current envisaged.

If you consider this is not possible the screen you are cuurently looking at is a matrix in which many shapes can be represented.

Nice, but...
..why Arata's cold fusion few dollars experiments weren't verified already? Because the governments and energetic lobby isn't interested into development of distributed sources of energy?

http://physicswor...p_1.html

The physics press has completely over-looked the fact that Robert Bussard has developed a WORKING method of what's called Inertial Electrostatic Fusion that was re-funded by the DOE in 2007, shortly before his premature death. Anyone interested developing virtual free energy in the real geopolitical world can view Dr. Bussard's work in an hour video at http://video.goog...73788606

Not surprising, considering Bussard kept silent about it for 11 years.